Kurdistan Region Prime Minister and senior Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) figure, Masrour Barzani, met with Patriotic Union ...

Both leaders expressed optimism following the talks, which focused on the procedures and steps required to establish a new ...

Masrour Barzani and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s (PUK) Bafel Talabani on government formation efforts is among the last with most issues resolved, the PUK’s spokesperson said.

Talks to focus on forming the new KRG cabinet, with expectations for a breakthrough before Ramadan Eid.

Iraq’s Kurdistan regional president Nechirvan Barzani on Thursday welcomed jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan’s call for the ...

Some even suggest that the Turkish President will likely use Ocalan’s call as a way to persuade Kurdish voters to support a ...

On March 16, 1988, the town of Halabja in northern Iraq experienced unspeakable horror. It was the day Saddam Hussein ...

Without third party mediation between Turkey and Kurdish groups, it may be difficult to overcome the many barriers that have ...

1951 – Member of the KDP’s Central Committee. June 1975 – Leaves the KDP to found the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), an organization that promotes independence for the Kurdish people. 1975-2017 – ...

the chief of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party. Ocalan’s PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state, holds positions in Iraq’s Kurdistan region ...