Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran, and the U.S. has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them, Kurdish officials have told The Associated Press.

Israel has been bombing parts of western Iran to support Iranian Kurdish militias who hope to exploit the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran to seize towns near the

Iraq's first lady, Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed, has a message for the U.S.: Kurds are tired of being asked to rise up against authoritarian rulers–and then being abandoned. “Leave the Kurds alone. We are not guns for hire,

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made undermining the security of US assets and expelling them from the region a top priority for Iran-aligned Iraqi armed groups,

Tension in the Middle East continue to escalate as Iran-aligned Iraqi militias expand targets from military bases to oil facilities, threatening regional stability.

The Kurdish forces operating along the Iran-Iraq border are considered one of the most prominent armed opposition groups confronting the regime in Tehran. Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have begun

A drone attack ⁠struck ⁠an oilfield operated ⁠by U.S. firm HKN Energy in Iraq’s ​Kurdistan region on Thursday, causing a fire and halting ‌production, security sources and ‌an oilfield engineer said.

Two years ago, Monocle travelled to the Iran-Iraq border to meet Iranian Kurdish fighters training for the day they