The new Kurdish assertiveness is evident not only in Iraq but also in Syria, where the YPJ, a Kurdish militia, has partnered with the U.S. military to fight the Islamic State (ISIS), Turkey, where ...

IRBIL, Iraq — The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups met in northern Iraq on Thursday in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has ...

Mazlum Abdi, the commander of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), is set to meet Masoud Barzani, the former president of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and leader of the ruling Kurdistan ...

These words were a reference to the current reconciliation process between Turkey's government and Kurds, which was initiated about three months ago by Erdogan's coalition partner Devlet Bahceli, ...

Life in the ancient Bronze Age city of Kurd Qaburstan, an ancient Mesopotamian site in present-day Iraq, has long been a mystery to archaeologists due to limited research and a lack of historical ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and occupying more Kurdish territory. Mourners attend the funeral in ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The United States on Tuesday called on Iran to overturn the death sentence of Kurdish woman Pakhshan Azizi and to stop targeting Kurds after she was sentenced for ...

Independent UN human rights experts on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the Iranian Supreme Court's decision to uphold the death sentence of Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish woman activist and social ...

Although Erdogan might deplore the effect on Turkey’s domestic political scene, he may yet see an autonomous Kurdish region recognized within a new Syrian constitution. WOMEN TAKE PART in a ...

With the fall of the Assad regime, Syria’s new government now controls almost the entire country, except for the northeast, where the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), once a key partner of ...