"The strikes were conducted as part of Inherent Resolve, the operation to eliminate the terrorist g…

Iran's interference in the conflict also remains a top concern for American officials. The Iraqi-ba…

The area under the control of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has been one of t…

The Kurdish forces, known as Peshmerga, have proven themselves to be the most effective bulwark so …

This rerouting caused the generator to sit on the Jordanian border for all of 2004 and the first th…

But not everything is rosy in Kurdistan. Iraqi Kurdistan itself is split between two main Kurdish g…

By 1940, the Standard Oil trust created by John D. Rockefeller had been long broken up into "baby s…

Baghdad has protested against the Kurds having the ability to independently sell their oil, and the…

In the early days of ISIS's recent onslaught, the Peshmerga took the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, under…

In a letter sent to the country's internet service providers, Iraq's Ministry of Communications ask…

US officials confirmed they'd carried out a "self-defense strike on an imminent threat" on Sunday a…

US special forces recently captured ISIS' top chemical weapons chief, Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, forme…

"We should ... support the Kurdish aspiration for independence," Netanyahu told Tel Aviv University…

"The United States provided equipment and training to the Government of Iraq to fight ISIS and secu…

However, the expected "yes" vote would simply strengthen the Kurds' hand in talks with Baghdad rath…

While the animosity between the US and Iran spans decades, the most recent tensions stem from a Dec…

Insurgents in Iraq have scored a number of successes in the country recently, seizing control of th…

However, shipments out of Kirkuk, 100 miles southeast of Mosul, have already been halted after a Ma…

US troops inserted by helicopter spent roughly 90 minutes on the ground near Deir al-Zour - about 8…

Our commodity research team believes that in the unlikely event ISIS invades the South and the enti…