Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region may consider the possibility of postponing a planned referendum on independence in return for financial and political concessions from the central government in Baghdad. madaresharghi _ ...

A commander of the Iraqi forces of Hashid Shaabi stated that the forces would not participate in the upcoming operation to liberate the Iraqi northern city of Tel Afar due ...

Iraq's Kurds are sticking to a plan to hold an independence referendum on Sept. 25, despite a U.S. request to postpone it, a high-ranking Kurdish official told Reuters on Saturday. ...

These days there is a single item on the agenda of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq: The Sept. 25 independence referendum. KRG President Masoud Barzani has started ...

Democratic Party President Fuad Masum, himself a veteran Kurdish politician, has warned against the plebiscite on the Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence, saying such plan is a dream that cannot be realized ...