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

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

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

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 Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (IKRG) Masrour Barzani has yet to meet with Pres. Biden or VP Harris, despite the clear commonalities between the US and the Kurdish people.

The Kurds are tribal groups living primarily in a sprawling mountainous region that lies inside the borders of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. The 25 million Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world ...

In The Kurds and the State, derived from her University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertation, political scientist [Denise] Natali explores how Kurdish nationalism developed in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.

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 ...

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, ...