The Ibrahim Khalil crossing, an artery of KRG commerce, is closed for a second day as Turkey goes on the offensive in Kurdish areas of the country’s southeast.

The NOC's deputy inspector general, who had reportedly been investigating oil smuggling, was injured in an attack that killed two others.

A deal negotiated between Shia militia and Kurdish Peshmerga leaders, brokered in part by an Iranian official, has for now tempered sectarian violence.

An array of Kurdish forces burst into Sinjar town Friday, marking a key victory against Islamic State militants.

Deadly fighting threatens to shatter a fragile alliance among fractious forces nominally united to protect key territory from the IS group.

A joint assault on the IS-held town of Sinjar is slowly unfolding, with Kurdish government and militia forces, including Yezidi units, sharing the battlespace.

Power struggles among rival Kurdish forces, several backed by the U.S., are frustrating a long-planned offensive to retake the city whose sacking drew the world’s attention to the IS invasion.

Kirkuk security forces suppress IS militants' shock suicide attack raid behind the front line near key oil fields.

Long-time head of oil police now moved to reconstituted jurisdiction over the country's borders.

Deadly confrontations in Sulaimaniya province are destabilizing a region already reeling from overlapping political, economic and security crises.