For centuries, Kurdish women and men across various regions have endured severe oppression, structural violence, and cultural ...

U.S. administrations castigated the PKK and praised democracy but never considered that the PKK created the only oasis of progressivism in the region.

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Beyond political allegiances in Iraqi Kurdistan, there is growing concern about the economic and environmental implications ...

Amid Israel’s war of aggression, Iranian Kurdish parties sense an opportunity to advance their demands, with calls ranging ...

An explosion occurred in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq on Sunday evening, the third day of the ...

After decades of repression, many of Turkey’s Kurds are hopeful that their long struggle for basic rights may finally be ...

Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country’s ...

Other sizable groups include Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Lurs and Balochis. Kurds, often considered the world's largest stateless people, primarily inhabit territory spanning Iran, Iraq, Syria and ...

Other regional actors offer rhetorical friendship, but the Kurds demonstrate theirs through action and sacrifice. What’s more, they provide a critical bulwark against Iranian influence in a ...

How does this regional commotion impact a century-old quest by Kurds for statehood? In the past century, two diaspora-based states, viz. Israel and Armenia, have been created in West Asia.

AKRE. Iraq — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on ...