ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurds in Kirkuk say they are upset that despite an increase in the number of votes for Kurdish ...

History sometimes fits into a single scene, a single frame. In that frame, the entire contradiction, the entire hypocrisy of ...

Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas has been jailed for nine years on what the European Court of Human Rights calls ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior member of Iraq’s main Sunni Arab party, the Takaddum Front, sparked controversy on Sunday ...

US President Donald Trump hosted Syrian President Ahmed Al Sharaa, formerly known as Al Julani, in the White House Oval ...

The push to recruit ethnic and religious minorities comes as the government in Damascus faces increased scrutiny after outbreaks of sectarian violence in recent months, during which there were ...

A news video originally broadcast by TV Asahi Corp. about Kurds living in Japan was heavily edited and uploaded on social ...

The Middle East’s Kurds are being bombed, shot at and arrested across four countries. Scores have died in political unrest in northwest Iran. Some two dozen have died in airstrikes on northern Syria.

US unpredictability is exactly what the al-Sharaa–President Trump meeting put on display: Washington can praise the Syrian ...

In Europe, and in the echo of Europe beyond the continent, Jews have supplied that emblem with unwearied regularity. In the interstices of the Middle East, Kurds have borne a similar symbolic freight.

To many Western minds, the Kurdish-dominated, mountainous northern part of Iraq is an island of relative stability amidst the chaos and bloodshed that wreak havoc in the rest of the country. In fact, ...

The modern Middle East was formed exactly 100 years ago when, in the wake of World War I, the victors began creating new countries. Among the populations deemed deserving of nationhood — along with ...