A drive to recruit Kurds and religious minorities to the Syrian government's General Security Forces in the northern area of ...

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

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A security agency controlled by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan ...

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 ...

At least five people have been killed and 18 others wounded in Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq, following the arrest of a ...

Tensions have escalated between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country's north in a long-running dispute over the the sharing of oil revenues.

Damascus is still trying to crack down on ISIS threats, and fund people who have returned from displaced persons camps. The ...

The new WPLN podcast The Country in Our Hearts outlines the history of conflict in the region of Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as Kurdish people’s fight for land and the right to exist — much of it ...

In the long term, Turkey’s foreign policy may adapt to the emergence of a Kurdish regional authority in Syria. Toward Peace Without the People? Risks and the Future of Kurdish Politics Despite its ...

Kurdish Studies Association Co-Chair Remziye Alparslan and Kurdish linguist Zana Farqînî criticize the ban on speaking Kurdish at the committee formed for the peace process, stressing that issues ...

At least five people were killed and 18 others wounded in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq, after security forces arrested Lahur ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a decades-long insurgency. The members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...