For far too long, American policymakers have tiptoed around the Kurdish question, hesitant to fully endorse independence for ...

"We mothers do not want to cry anymore. Let us bury weapons, not our children," Nezahat Teke, a Kurdish mother speaking in ...

From the Halabja Pomegranate Festival to breathtaking mountain escapes, Kurdistan is ready to welcome thousands of tourists ...

You may think about taking a trip to a place generally headlined for conflict and unrest. Well, I did just that, and it turned out to be one of the most enlightening experiences of my life. American, ...

Opinion: The world’s response in Sinjar was not perfect, but it was decisive, and it saved thousands of lives. That is a ...

A strategic KRG road project in Amedi is nearing completion, sparking hope for the repopulation of over 100 villages ...

The mothers of some fighters in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) called on Wednesday for an amnesty for their children and an end to decades of ...

Teke, wearing the white headscarf that has become a symbol of the Peace Mothers, urged parliament to create a legal pathway for fighters to come down from the mountains. “If they come down only to be ...

Iranian cinema is among the very best in the world, exemplified by the works of auteurs such as Majid Majidi, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi. Critics hail Iranian movies for their ...

The sudden reason for the arrest of Lahur Talabany is not clear but it casts a potential shadow over the Patriotic Union of ...

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