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Davos Isn’t as Smug or as Cool as It Used to Be Kurds see Iraq as a failed sectarian state, while local leaders promise an independent Kurdish state would be multicultural and democratic.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has formally demanded the suspension of next week's referendum on Kurdish independence. The Supreme Court also ordered that the poll must be postponed until ...

The Iraqi Kurdish parliament has voted to back an independence referendum in the face of opposition from across the globe. The Kurdistan Regional Government, sitting for the first time in two ...

[Editor’s Note: Today The American Conservative presents both the case for and against Kurdish independence. See Daniel Larison’s case against the referendum going forward, here.] The United ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

"A referendum on independence was held, and then Kurdistan’s leader (Masoud Barzani) stated that the implementation of this decision should be postponed. Later, he resigned but the decision is ...

When there was a non-binding referendum in the Kurdish region of Iraq in 2017, 93% voted for freedom and independence. The result? Baghdad, increasingly an Iranian satellite, unleashed a punishing ...

World News // 7 years ago Kurdistan starts voting in controversial independence referendum Residents of Iraq's Kurdistan region started voting Monday in a historic and controversial referendum on ...

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan the independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan noting that Moscow’s position is well-known ...