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Vehicles drive past a closed gas station during a fuel shortage in Irbil, Iraq, Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Stella Martany)

Drivers endure overnight gas lines as a war-driven fuel shortage grips Iraq’s Kurdish region

By Stella Martany - Associated Press

Black smoke rises following explosions near a military base hosting U.S. forces in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, Friday, July 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Stella Martany)

Drones target northern Iraqi city where American forces are based as U.S.-Iran fighting escalates

By Julia Frankel and Stella Martany - Associated Press

FILE - Forces of the regional Kurdish administration secure the area of the Jasana Cave ahead of a symbolic disarmament ceremony by the separatist PKK group as part of the peace process with Turkey, in Sulaymaniyah governorate, Iraq, July 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Kurdish militant official says Turkey has stalled peace talks, blaming a lack of reforms

By Stella Martany - Associated Press

Relatives grieve in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, March 12, 2026, during a funeral for members of the Popular Mobilization Forces who were killed in a U.S. airstrike in Qaim. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq is caught in the crossfire of the Iran war, with attacks by both sides on its soil

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Residents and officers from Israel's Home Front Command inspect a house destroyed by an Iranian missile strike in Zarzir, northern Israel, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Trump threatens Iran following new wave of attacks on Gulf states and Israel

By Jon Gambrell, David Rising and Sally Abou Aljoud - Associated Press

Rebaz Sherifi, military commander at the Kurdistan Freedom Party PAK, speaks during an interview in Irbil, Iraq, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Rashid Yahya)

Kurdish Iranian dissidents in Iraq deny attack plans but say they would join a U.S. invasion of Iran

By Stella Martany - Associated Press

A man registers to vote during parliamentary elections of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region, in Irbil, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Salar Salim)

Iraq’s Kurdish region goes to the polls with a flagging economy and political infighting top of mind

By Stella Martany - Associated Press

Syrians look at an abandoned medical facility in the village of Talteta, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, that was hit by Iranian missiles late Monday night, according to a voluntary rescue group White Helmets. Iran fired missiles late Monday at what it claimed was Israeli "spy headquarters" near the U.S. Consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil and at targets linked to the extremist group Islamic State in northern Syria. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Iraq recalls its ambassador, summons Iran’s charge d’affaires over strikes in Irbil

By Salar Salim and Omar Albam - Associated Press

A house damaged by an Iranian ballistic missile attack is seen in Irbil, Iraq, Sunday, March 13, 2022. Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck early Sunday near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard. (AP Photo/Ahmed Mzoori, Metrography)

Iran claims responsibility for missile barrage near U.S. consulate in Iraq

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican: Pope to visit Iraq in March, pandemic permitting

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Iraq military says Turkish drone kills 2 senior commanders

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SALAR SALIM - Associated Press

Soldiers in Dwekh Nawsha, an Assyrian Christian militia, in Baqofah, Iraq, in August 2015. The town was opposite then Islamic State-occupied Batnaya at the time. (Adam Lucente/Special to The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Donald Trump to help Iraq Christians punish Islamic State

By Adam Lucente — Special to The Washington Times

Kurdish leaders remain committed to a political settlement but say their famed peshmerga militia forces are ready to take up arms to defend their homeland. (Associated Press/File)

Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdish delegate, urges U.S. to push Iraq deal

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Iraqi troops entered disputed territories occupied by the nation's Kurds three years after Kurdish militias seized the areas outside their autonomous region to defend against an advance by the Islamic State extremist group. (Associated Press)

Iraqi forces retake Kirkuk from Kurdish control

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The Latest: Turks advised to leave Iraqi Kurdish region

Associated Press

A man waves the Kurdish flag in the streets of Irbil after polling stations closed on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. The Kurds of Iraq were voting in a referendum on support for independence that has stirred fears of instability across the region, as the war against the Islamic State group winds down. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Iraq threatens flight ban after Kurdish independence vote

By Susannah George - Associated Press

Kurds celebrated referendum day Monday in Irbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government, hoping to send a message to the international community. (Seth J. Frantzman/Special to The Washington Times)

Kurd independence vote raises fears in region

By Seth J. Frantzman

An Iraqi Kurdish man casts his ballot during the referendum on independence from Iraq in Irbil, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. Iraq's Kurdish region vote in a referendum on whether to secede from Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi Kurds vote in referendum on independence from Baghdad

By Susannah George and Balint Szlanko - Associated Press

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford, Jr., testifies during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing to become the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this July 9, 2015, file photo. The top U.S. military officer landed in Iraq Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, to get an update on the battle against Islamic State militants, saying he sees no prospect right now for Russia to expand its airstrike campaign into the war-torn country.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

U.S. wary as Iran, Russia step up Iraq role

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Kurdistan Regional President Masoud Barzani. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Iraq’s Kurds, key U.S. ally in Islamic State fight, embroiled in violent political crisis

By Florian Neuhof - Special to The Washington Times