All this, he argues, helped empower Turkey, Iran, Russia and the Syrian regime in the wider region ... were let down and betrayed by the US to suggesting that the Kurds – Masoud Barzani’s Kurdistan ...

President Vladimir Putin has authorised Armenian investment fund Balchug Capital's purchase of Goldman Sachs' unit in Russia, ...

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani received a phone call from French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday night.

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. Moscow’s troops used the same pincer tactic ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Mazloum Abdi, chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on Tuesday met with the Kurdish National ...

War fervour has subsided in Ukraine, but not the desire to live and the drive to carry on against all odds.

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official ...

Hoshyar Zebari, a senior Kurdistan Democratic Party official, described the meeting between KDP leader Masoud Barzani and Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF ...

group led by Masoud Barzani and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) group led by Jalal Talabani. The original plan was for the US Army to establish a large northern front in Kurdistan and advance ...