The Iraqis claimed they had ”launched a wide-scale search operation” in response to these attacks. After three weeks of drone ...

Flag Symbolizes Divisive Issue of Kurdish Autonomy Saddam Hussein's trial in Baghdad was disrupted when a witness wore a lapel pin with the image of the Kurdish flag instead of Iraq's banner. The ...

As Anne Garrels reported on Monday, Kurdistan, in the northern part of Iraq, is very different from the rest of the country. It is noisy, as she reports this morning, with construction, not bombs.

The leader of Iraq's Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, ordered the country’s national flag to be replaced with the Kurdish one. Barzani's action has made government leaders fear the Kurds are ...

“When they raised the Kurdish flag, I was born in the shadow of that flag,” Barzani said. Following in his father’s footsteps, he joined the Peshmerga at 16 and assumed leadership of the ...

A group of students wearing traditional Kurdish clothing and holding the Kurdistan flag celebrated with Kurdish dancing, called 'shaiy.' VIDEO: People dance to music on the streets of Khanaqin.

The new Kurdish flag is literally everywhere; but it's a flag without a country. Like most Kurds, Dr. Ali Saed Mohammed, the president of Sulemaniya University, would like to change that, and soon.

The Kurdistan flag has been at the heart of political rivalries in Kirkuk for a long time. When the provincial council, then under the control of Kurdish parties, ...

The flag issue has taken on greater importance in Iraq since Sept. 1. That's when Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's Kurdish region, banned the flying of the Iraqi flag at government buildings.

The flag issue has taken on greater importance in Iraq since Sept. 1. That's when Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's Kurdish region, banned the flying of the Iraqi flag at government buildings.