A peshmerga soldier in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq reportedly died during a fight with the PKK on Sunday amid tensions between the two groups as well as with Turkey.

The Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq says NRT's coverage of protests encouraged people to violate anti-coronavirus measures, but journalists say the closure is a violation of press freedom.

Domestic pressure on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan increased on Wednesday with the presentation of a new centre-right party led...

Representatives from several political parties in the Kurdistan Region will meet in Erbil on Monday (February 24) with the Region’s top political leadership to discuss the ongoing government formation process in Baghdad.

New Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Rewaz Fayaq takes the position of Kurdistan Parliament Speaker during a parliamentary voting on Thursday

Despite Iraq's condemnation, Turkish fighter jets continue to bombard areas inside Iraqi Kurdistan claiming to target the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

Nechirvan Barzani has been sworn in as president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in an inauguration ceremony that took place in the Kurdistan region’s capital, Erbil. Kurdish leaders said that the move would further cement the dominance of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

The Parliament of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq has elected Nechirvan Barzani as the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

According to Latif Sheikh Omar, the spokesperson for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the party is ready to hold a new round of government formation talks with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

The parliament of the Kurdistan region of Iraq elected Vala Farid, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), to serve as the Speaker of the KRG's Parliament.

The conflict between the two main Kurdish parties in Iraq could allow for political maneuvering among the smaller parties as Iraqi Kurdistan seeks to form a new government.

In Iraq's Kurdish region, a new generation is coming of age which has seen only two parties in power - KDP and PUK. For some of these youth, the two parties are responsible for the worsening of the economic situation in the country.

On Sunday 30th of September, the Kurdish autonomous region held an election. Voters chose from more than 700 candidates to win 111 seats in Kurdistan’s Parliament, a year after a failed independence referendum to separate from Iraq.

The two largest Iraqi Kurdish political parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), are likely to agree eventually on a presidential candidate, but in the meantime several hats are in the ring.

Eyewitnesses have said that the Kurdistan Democratic Party's political police, the Asayish have detained and beaten Faiez Abed Jahwareh, the Assyrian Mayor of the city of Alqosh in the Nineveh Plains. The Asayish officer reportedly declared that the KDP controls the area and "decides what happens in Alqosh".

Lebanon heads to general elections for the first time in nine years. This is the first elections to include the 82k expat voters, totaling the total registered voters at 3.6 million. This election also sees a new Electoral system in which voters will vote twice, once for coalitions and once for the candidate.