The Balkanization of Kurdistan impacted university development. As a result many universities in Kurdistan have suffered and are not providing a quality education to their students.

We interrupt President Obama’s celebration of keeping a campaign promise to bring you news from Iraq, where a political crisis has been unfolding since just hours after Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta departed on Thursday.

It is time Masud Barzani returns to Erbil, breaks his isolation, and embraces the free press for what it is: the surest path to good governance.

Iraqi Kurdistan has achieved miracles since 1991, but it needs intellectuals, including journalists, to continue to move forward.

The murder of a young journalist has caused the international press to cast Iraqi Kurdistan as a region of insecurity, criminality, and repression, and has undermined the stability Kurdistan needs for success.

For almost a third of a century, the Islamic Republic of Iran has confounded American presidents. It has taken hostages, conducted terrorism, undermined the Middle East peace process, and worked unrelentingly to become a nuclear power and develop missiles with global reach.

Rubin reviews Scott Taylor's Among the Others: Encounters with the Forgotten Turkmen of Iraq.

Someformer al Qaeda allies in Iraq are turning against the terror group.