The flag is "to cover her," Ahmad says. To protect her just as the United States did when it assisted the Kurdish people threatened by the Islamic State on Mount Sinjar last year.

Sara Rahbar, “Kurdistan Flag #5” (2007) (all images courtesy the artist) ... Unlike many in the art world, we are not beholden to large corporations or billionaires.

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 ...

Kurdish militias retake the Tall Shair hilltop and remove Islamist flag thanks to US airstrikes. Obama meets coalition military leaders. Ankara stops aid to the Kurds, denies the US use of its air bas ...

The war on ISIS has emboldened Iraq's Kurds to take a provocative step — raising their flag above the disputed, multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk. The flag raising has caused ripples around the region.

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - There are almost no relations between the Kurdistan Region and Kyrgyzstan, yet the Kurdish flag flies proudly in the centre of the Krygyz capital Bishkek. The flag has been ...