"Maybe this will be the next fall in the domino effect of this regime," a former Israeli intelligence officer told Newsweek.

The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could end a 40-year conflict that has killed some 40,000 people. As the process ...

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Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Tuesday received a high-level Iranian delegation to discuss enhancing bilateral ties and cross-border cooperation. The visit comes as Iraq is set to ...

It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.In May, the PKK said it would lay down its arms and disband, but it is not clear when this process will begin and how ...

The region was supposed to hold the election by the end of 2022, but the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) were not able to reach an agreement about ...

The democratic autonomy movement in North Kurdistan is part of the wider movements for 'democratic confederalism' in Kurdistan. In the writing of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the ...

Ever since the region effectively gained independence from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in 1991, its government has been dominated by two political blocs: the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the ...

On Nov. 9, 1994, four Iranian warplanes, likely F-4 Phantom IIs, penetrated Iraqi Kurdistan’s airspace and bombed a camp belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) in Koi Sanjaq ...

Massoud Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party whose forces now control northern Kurdish region of Iraq, with help from Iraqi army, says he wants area to be castle of peace and democracy ...