Although he was not named in the Shafaq report, it appears Walai was referring to US Ambassador Steven H. Fagin, who assumed his duties as Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Baghdad in May 2025.

The unnamed Kurd told an immigration tribunal he had been 'mistreated, humiliated and abused' as a result of his disability.

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party says the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will take a first formal step toward disarmament on ...

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging forces after the latest ...

The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a ...

In the first footage of him to be released publicly in 25 years, Abdullah Ocalan said the P.K.K. insurgency against Turkey ...

More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with ...

In late May 2025, the Federal Government of Iraq’s Ministry of Finance issued an official letter claiming that the Kurdistan Region’s total expenditures - including public servant salaries ...

Baghdad’s Push To End Iraqi Kurdistan Independence By Simon Watkins - Oct 28, 2024, 6:00 PM CDT ...

The Iraqi Kurdish leaders may believe they are indispensable to Washington, but they are wrong. The Kurdish leaders will soon discover that neither foreign nor military aid are entitlements.

Girls walk to class on the first day of school in a Yazidi displacement camp about 9 miles from the city of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Nov. 1, 2021. ISMAEL ADNAN/AFP via Getty Images ...

from the moment the oil export embargo was imposed on Iraqi Kurdistan on 25 March of 2023, the objective for Baghdad was always to end the region’s semi-autonomous status ...