Around 50 years later, the city remains a hotbed for Kurdish Americans to call home. Though many Kurds came from Iraq, thousands of others have come to Nashville from Turkey, Syria and Iran.

Massud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region , spoke in Erbil, the Kurdish capital earlier this month. (Gailan Haji/EPA) If the ongoing battle to liberate Mosul, once Iraq's second ...

With a population of 1.5 million, Erbil is the largest city in Kurdistan. It is also one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, with life in the city dating as far back as 6000 B.C.

Photographer Eugenio Grosso moved from London to Kurdistan four months after the battle of Mosul began. ... he chose to stay behind in the Kurdish capital of Erbil and explore Dream City.

Migration Iraqi Kurdistan capital’s prosperity, tolerance threatened by Islamic State By . Seth Robson robson.seth@stripes.com ...

The Kurdish media posted videos of air-raid sirens sounding from the U.S. consulate in the center of the Kurdish capital, Erbil. In the city of Sulaimaniya, the Kurdistan Region’s second largest ...

Missiles hit Kurdish capital in Iraq, no casualties, officials say. A dozen ballistic missiles struck Iraq's northern Kurdish regional capital Erbil early Sunday morning, local officials said.

There is no place for family rule in Kurdistan. ARRAF: At a park near the city, Qubad Talabani, the Kurdish region's deputy prime minister, is attending a youth event as he campaigns for the ...

Civil defense teams in the Kurdistan Region announced on Sunday that they will continue their daily search for 27-year-old Avesta Yousuf, ... north of the Kurdish capital city.

Six people were killed on Sunday in a series of blasts targeting a security directorate in the capital of Iraq's usually peaceful autonomous Kurdistan region, security and medical sources said ...