(Beirut) – Iranian authorities have used excessive and lethal force against predominantly Kurdish border couriers, known in Kurdish and Farsi as Kulbars, transporting goods between Iran and Iraq ...

Tensions have escalated between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the country's ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Tensions on the Kurdistan Region’s borders with Turkey and Iran have recently de-escalated, said a spokesperson for Iraq’s border forces on Tuesday. Turkish and ...

Tehran has long accused the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of harboring opposition groups it considers “terrorists” and allowing them to use the border areas as a launchpad for attacks ...

Kurdistan will, at best, find itself in an unstable region and, at worst, will be surrounded by hostile powers resentful of its independence and disputing both its borders and claim to resources.

The United Nations said that Iranian attacks last week hit Iranian refugee settlements across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan. Local officials said at least nine civilians were killed and dozens ...

Photo composite: Noah Friedman Iran is deploying armored and special units along its western border to prevent the infiltration of Kurdish opposition groups based in Iraq, a top commander of the ...

These troops will be spread along the Iranian border as part of a security agreement signed in March with Tehran. Long battered by multiple foreign interferences and troubled by Kurdistan's ...

Iraq has begun moving Iranian Kurdish opposition groups away from the country's border with Iran, its chief diplomat said on Tuesday, after Iran warned that its neighbor must take action.

As ISIS targeted Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims for extermination, Kurdistan opened its borders and its communities. That protection wasn’t passive. It was intentional, principled ...