The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

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

The Kurdish inhabitants of Aleppo were forcibly displaced by jihadist forces in January 2026. The image used with permission from Ronahi TV. The author thanks Ronahi TV for granting permission to use ...

After deadly clashes in Aleppo, Syria’s transitional government reached a ceasefire with Kurdish forces to stabilize the north. This means that key minority areas were excluded. At the same time, ...

Kurdish-run prisons hold about 8,000 suspected IS fighters and around 34,000 of their family members in camps. The US fought IS with the Kurds for years. Now, Donald Trump is siding with Syria's new ...

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 ...

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, ...

The main demand of the Syrian Kurds is the preservation of the self-government bodies they created in the northeastern ...

As the anti-ISIS Coalition embraces Syria, the Kurdish role in the war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria also deserves recognition.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share moments from their lives and work around the world. With their red loafers and scarves and sashaying, it's ...

Iraq is like trying to nail down a warped board. As soon as we start to get a handle on one problem, like the violence in Anbar province, another, such as what’s currently brewing in Kurdistan, creeps ...