IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its ...

You may not be able to find it on a map but it is, Kurds will tell you, another country. Asked if they were in Iraq right now, a student told Simon, "I think that I'm in Kurdistan, not in Iraq." ...

As this map of areas with significant Kurdish populations below shows, most Kurdish-inhabited territory is in either Iraq or Turkey, with communities in Iran and Syria as well: ...

With Kurdistan's history of holding its ground despite society's belief in borders and war games in the neighboring Syrian conflict, territorial disputes were apt to erupt in Iraq. And they have.

In the buildup to a long-awaited offensive on the city of Mosul, Kurdish forces are seizing new territory in northern Iraq that they say will become part of their autonomous region.

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