Two recent busts have revealed homegrown IS cells planning assassination and recruitment campaigns.
Changing political and security dynamics have the potential to complicate burgeoning oil and gas development in the province.
Key gas field that fuels most of Kurdistan's power generation is coming back online after urgent talks over security measures to deter chronic attacks.
Four people were killed and two injured in a drone attack that has caused the Khor Mor gas field to shut down, taking three-quarters of Iraqi Kurdistan's electricity supply offline.
Gunmen made threats against a mine clearance subcontractor over land compensation claims that some security officials described as attempted extortion.
Iraq's top national security official discusses efforts to navigate U.S.-Iran tensions and reframe security cooperation with members of the counter-IS coalition.
After condemning violations of sovereignty, Baghdad and Erbil have not published investigative findings or taken action to deter further attacks by Iran and its proxy forces.
Thursday's attack on the gas field — the seventh in two years — caused a fire and forced a shutdown in gas production critical for power supplies in both Kurdistan and federal Iraq.
Sparked by the Gaza war, increased strikes on American targets highlight the weakness of an Iraqi government pinned between opposing political and military forces.
The fall semester still hasn't started for public school students in Kurdistan's Sulaimaniya province due to financial and political dysfunction.
Iraqi Army and Peshmerga forces clashed over a strategically important position near key energy assets.
Security and intelligence forces are exposing sleeper cells of Kurdish youth radicalized by Islamic State ideology in alarming numbers.
