Although he was not named in the Shafaq report, it appears Walai was referring to US Ambassador Steven H. Fagin, who assumed his duties as Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Baghdad in May 2025.

The unnamed Kurd told an immigration tribunal he had been 'mistreated, humiliated and abused' as a result of his disability.

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging forces after the latest ...

ANKARA, Turkey -- The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place ...

In the first footage of him to be released publicly in 25 years, Abdullah Ocalan said the P.K.K. insurgency against Turkey ...

More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with ...

However, Kurds are anything but unified. While Iraqi Kurds probably would embrace independence if given the chance, their leadership has not moved beyond a symbolic endorsement of such a vision.

Iraq has reopened its airspace after a 10-day closure due to the Israel-Iran conflict, allowing international flights to resume across the country and Kurdistan Region. The move follows a US ...

Kawa Mahmood Secretary General Kurdistan Communist Party Dear comrade, The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warmest greetings to the members and leadership of the Kurdistan Communist ...

After all, with the U.S. abandoning Syrian Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdish leaders functioning as Erdogan’s kapos, the Kurds have nowhere to go.

Kurdish leaders in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have been silent, however. “It’s a sensitive topic, of course,” explains the journalist.

Against this backdrop, the Iraqi Kurdistan Region 's leadership continues a careful balancing act—avoiding provocation, offering reassurances to Iran, and making urgent appeals to the international ...