The Kurdistan Region’s ruling parties met on Monday in Erbil, with Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leader Bafel Talabani leading the talks ...

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

Massoud Barzani, former guerrilla leader, secures for Kurds virtually everything they asked for in Iraq's new constitution; former warlord says politics is more difficult than war; new ...

The two sides exchanged views on the latest political developments and events affecting the region. The statement emphasized ...

The Kurdish Bargain over Iraq’s Presidency Family dynamics and an unwillingness to share power in Kurdistan also explain much about Masoud’s positioning in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

A recent Federal Supreme Court decision in Iraq has put a legal stake in the heart of Kurdistan’s oil and gas sector — the financial lifeline of the region. Only one man has the power to fix this.

The late Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Qassem Soleimani supported the United States invasion of Iraq, according to Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani. In an interview ...

Some 30 PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday in a move to end long-term conflict ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq.

Video EmbedMuqtada al Sadr’s faux withdrawal from politics and associated clashes in Baghdad's Green Zone may dominate diplomatic attention. They do not, however, represent the only life-and ...

Hoshyar Zebari, Masoud Barzani’s uncle and Iraq’s former finance and foreign minister, arrived in Washington last week. After a couple of perfunctory roundtables at local think tanks before ...

January 30, 2005 – Barzani is one of approximately 7,700 candidates in Iraq’s first free elections in over 50 years. June 2005 – Elected president of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq.