The leader of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq threatened secession Sunday as a dispute over flying the Iraqi flag intensified. Massoud Barzani on Friday ordered the country’s national flag ...

held a ceremony on Thursday to celebrate Kurdistan Flag day. “This flag is a symbol for the sacrifice of our nation,” Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said in a speech at the Thursday ceremony ...

NPR's Jane Arraf spoke to the Kurdish government who raised the new flags and the tensions. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Foreign language spoken). JANE ARRAF, BYLINE: This is the outdoor market in the ...

KHANAQIN, Iraq: Thousands of Iraqi Kurds demonstrated in the northern city of Khanaqin Sunday to demand the right to raise the Kurdish region’s flag over government buildings. The protest in Khanaqin ...

KDP-I marked the day their pary raised the Kurdish flag more than 70 years ago on Friday. They gathered on the snow-capped mountains of Kurdistan on the border with Iran for a day of reunion ...

“Imagine what Erbil would look like today if they had given up the Peshmerga…ISIS would be flying its black flag in Erbil.” In the past three weeks, the Peshmerga have fortified the Kurdish ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on Iraqi Kurds to lower the Kurdish flag in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, warning that failure to do so would damage ...

KHANAQIN, Iraq — Thousands of Iraqi Kurds demonstrated in this northern city Sunday to demand the right to raise the Kurdish region’s flag over government buildings. The protest in Khanaqin ...