In the past, some Kurds were able to seek refuge in Iran during Saddam Hussein’s genocidal poison gas attacks. However, the ...

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: Kurdish groups in Iran and Iraq have faced incredible hardships. They have persevered. Now they sense ...

As conflict has flared, the White House has strongly backed Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa - a former Jihadi. That's a slap in the face for the Kurds. The SDF lost 11,000 fighters battling ...

At a military base in northeast Syria, Roksan Mohammed recalled joining the battle against Islamic State group jihadists."We ...

The empire does not demand loyalty but conformity and obedience. When conformity is disrupted, that is, when the cost rises, those who were applauded yesterday can easily be declared “destabilizing.” ...

A picture Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is displayed inside a petrol station in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli, Sunday, Jan. 26, ...

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 the ...

These secular autonomous cantons provided a safe haven for Kurds, Arabs, Christians, Yazidis, Armenians, secular Syrians, and others, keeping millions more refugees from Europe’s borders. The ...

Pity the plight of the Kurds. The Kurds often quip that they are the largest people without a nation. That’s true. And they also say they have “no friends but the mountains.” That, too, is true. No ...

Rainfall continued throughout the Diyarbakır Newroz, but it did not stop hundreds of thousands of people from flocking to the celebration area. Leyla Zana's messages of peace left a mark on the ...

President-elect Donald Trump plans to hit the ground running. National security adviser-designee Mike Waltz is rapidly assembling the White House national security team. Secretary of State-designate ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the ...