Yet they responded with ballots, not bombs. In a 2017 referendum, 93 percent voted for independence. Baghdad rejected the ...

Statements by the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, an umbrella organisation of Kurdish left organisations, and the Kurdistan Free Life Party, based in Iranian/Eastern Kurdistan, also known ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iran and Russia held high-level discussions in Moscow on Tuesday about regional and international ...

Human Rights Watch reported on Monday that Iranian security forces employed lethal force against predominantly Kurdish border couriers that passed rugged terrain to transport goods between Iraq and Ir ...

Iranian Kurdish dissidents have been watching from abroad for signs that the government in Tehran might falter after the 12-day Israel-Iran war. They include a handful of exiled Iranian Kurdish ...

Some varieties of Kurdish, such as Sorani, are written in the Sorani alphabet, an Arabic-derived script, while the Kurmanji ...

Iranian-Kurdish soccer player Voria Ghafouri was arrested on charges of incitement against the Iran regime amid protests.

Heading for Turkey to the north and Iran to the east, hundreds of oil tankers snake each day from near Kurdistan's capital Erbil, clogging the Iraqi region's often winding and mountainous highways ...

In Iraqi Kurdistan, the American military's recent detention of a visiting Iranian has upset the fragile relationship between the region and Iran.

IRBIL, Iraq — From abroad, Iranian Kurdish dissident groups have been watching closely for signs that Iran’s theocracy could falter in its grip on the country, battered by Israeli airstrikes ...