As Anne Garrels reported on Monday, Kurdistan, in the northern part of Iraq, is very different from the rest of the country. It is noisy, as she reports this morning, with construction, not bombs ...

The leader of Iraq's Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, ordered the country’s national flag to be replaced with the Kurdish one. Barzani's action has made government leaders fear the Kurds are ...

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FILE - A Kurdish man and a woman wearing a T-shirt with the Kurdish flag printed on it ride their bikes in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah in the autonomous Kurdish region, July 21, 2009.

The unprecedented embrace of the Israeli flag comes amidst Israel’s support for Kurdish rights and historic connections between the two nations.

The flag issue has taken on greater importance in Iraq since Sept. 1. That's when Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's Kurdish region, banned the flying of the Iraqi flag at government buildings.

Members of France's Kurdish community and anti-racism activists joined together in mourning and anger on Saturday in Paris after three people were killed at a Kurdish cultural center.

Iraq’s prime minister has issued a stern rebuke to ethnic Kurds after the autonomous Kurdistan region ordered the national Iraqi flag be replaced by the Kurdish tri-colour on government ...

The modified design is meant to be valid only for one year, after which Iraqi lawmakers hope to choose a permanent replacement. The flag of northern Iraq's Kurdish region is red, white and green ...