While Mosul burns, Arbil booms: Iraqi Kurdistan's capital courts Western business, oil money and $110,000 cars, proving that autonomy, security and ancient trading instincts still pay dividends. In a ...

LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - The British government told its citizens to leave parts of Iraqi Kurdistan, including the regional capital Arbil, on Friday as the sweeping advance of Islamist militants ...

Leaders from nearly all of Iraq’s top political blocs called April 28 for a solution to a crisis pitting the Shiite-led government against Sunnis and Kurds, saying the dispute threatens the country’s ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday the Kurdish-controlled city of Arbil was becoming an operations base for the Islamic State militant group that seized swathes ...

The Iraqi government and the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the north of the country have reached a deal to ease tensions over Kurdish oil exports and civil service payments from ...

Arbil (Iraq) (AFP) – The taps have run dry, and the wells are almost empty. In the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, 80-year-old Babir hasn't bathed in weeks and impatiently waits for ...

Iraq's gateway to Europe, the northern city of Arbil, is the first bottleneck on a long and uncertain journey for a growing number of Iraqis choosing exile. "We're selling a lot of one-way tickets ...

LOS ANGELES, July 20-- Iraq’s Kurdistan region, eyeing a broader plan of industrialization, has inaugurated a new refinery near the capital city of Arbil, one of several planned for the area that will ...

ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - With Islamist militants just 30 minutes drive away, foreign oil workers were flying out of Iraq's Kurdish capital by the hundreds and business was booming in the city's arms ...

Authorities in Kurdistan are seeking foreign investment in tourism and infrastructure projects While Iraqi Kurdistan is reaping the benefits of massive oil reserves, estimated at 45 billion barrels, ...

Its origins are an archaeological riddle worthy of Indiana Jones, but it’s also a beacon of an oil-rich future. Welcome to the at least 7,000-year-old Arbil citadel in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region ...

Boys cool off with water from a mobile tanker as summer temperatures soar in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region — Safin HAMID The taps have run dry, and the wells are almost empty. In the ...