Baghdad and BP's negotiations over a major deal to redevelop Kirkuk's oil and gas fields must include Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, the Kurdish Prime Minister told Reuters, flagging a potential conflict with the central government.

The Kurdistan Regional Government’s prime minister said he was “surprised” by changes to an approved plan for oil production costs and the Iraqi parliament not voting on it this week, potentially creating a fresh hurdle in restarting exports that have been halted for almost two years.

Outrage after Iraq passes controversial law allowing child marriage for girls as young as nine, sparking concerns of legalizing child rape.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said on Thursday that Erbil must be included in the ongoing negotiations over a major deal between Baghdad and British Petroleum to develop the disputed province of Kirkuk’s oil fields.

The ongoing oil dispute between Baghdad and Kurdistan intensifies as US intervention sparks backlash and highlights the power struggle over oil resources and regional autonomy.

Israeli-Russian Princeton researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, who is being held hostage by an Iraqi militia, is alive and the Iraqi prime minister is working on her release, Iraqi foreign minister Fouad Hussein told Axios reporter Barak Ravid on Thursday.

USS Travis Manion, an amphibious warship, pays tribute to the Silver Star recipient and carries on his legacy, Travis Manion's family said.

The prolonged shutdown of Kurdistan’s oil pipeline, coupled with a delayed parliamentary vote on production costs, has cost Iraq $25 billion in lost revenue, highlighting the high stakes of political and economic gridlock.

Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves from Iraq into Syria during their reign of terror.In August that year,

The Iraqi prisoner had sued the Biden administration, saying he would be at risk for abuse at a prison in his homeland.

The two H225Ms are the first of eight helicopters ordered in 2021 and will replace Pumas currently in service with French detachments in French Guiana, Djibouti and New Caledonia. Airbus Helicopters announced on Jan.