Twenty-four individuals from the Raparin administration in Sulaimani province, who had embarked on the perilous sea journey ...

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Drone strikes on five oil fields in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) by unknown groups between July 14 and 16, 2025, ...

Turkey is negotiating with Iraq to fully utilize the Kurdistan-Ceyhan oil pipeline and extend their agreement, which expires ...

US repatriates minor from Kurdish-run camps in Western Kurdistan, praises SDF's role in fighting ISIS. Urges global action as ...

The drone strikes on the Kurdistan Region’s oil facilities are a “dangerous escalation” that risks fueling disputes between ...

He stated that the Iraqi government needs to disclose the identities of those responsible for the drone attacks.

Drone attacks for a third day on oilfields in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have slashed crude output by 140,000 to ...

Recent targeted attacks on KRI oil fields have halved its output, with suspicion falling on Iran-backed militias.

Iraq approved a plan for its semi-autonomous Kurdish region to transfer oil to Baghdad, a step toward resuming exports that ...

Kurdistan, however, is not completely immune from the violence that has rocked the rest of Iraq. In May, a car bomb killed 19 people in Erbil. It was the first attack inside Kurdistan in two years.

The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the ...