An Egyptian court has sentenced a prominent opposition leader widely expected to run against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in next year's elections to three months in prison for offending public morals

Polls have opened in Iraq's Kurdish-run provinces, disputed Kirkuk as Iraqi Kurds vote for independence from Baghdad

Iraq's Kurds are set to vote in a referendum on support for independence that has stirred fears of instability across the region as the war against the Islamic State group winds down

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard has begun a military exercise in the northwestern Kurdish region near the Iraqi border ahead of a Kurdish independence referendum in the neighboring country

Turkey's political and military leaders are set to meet to mull over possible sanctions and other measures against Iraq's Kurdish region if it goes ahead with a referendum on independence

The United Nations has proposed a new approach to solve the Libyan crisis, by amending a current political agreement, holding a constitutional referendum and general elections

Iraq's Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the northern Kurdish region's referendum on independence that was scheduled for next week

Iraqi Prime Minister says he's prepared to intervene militarily if Kurdish region's planned independence referendum results in violence

The Kurdish region's parliament votes to approve holding a controversial referendum on support for independence Sept. 25, according to broadcasts of the session by local television Friday evening.

A lawmaker says the parliament has dismissed the Kurdish governor of Iraq's ethnically mixed Kirkuk province upon a request from the Prime Minister