This month we celebrate 50 years of British Reggae pioneers Misty In Roots, some cutting edge electro-Cumbia and the lilt of Malian guitar.

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

They also put Kurdish flags on their cars and use yellow -- from the Kurdish Democratic Party banner -- as their gang color. On their Web sites, they talk about Kurdish music and culture.

At least five people were killed and 18 others wounded in the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish ...

Flatlands, vast expanding flatlands jutting into a distant sun-drenched horizon. Every few hundred yards, punctuated by the ...

A visit to Babani’s in St. Paul is like being invited to someone’s home, but you have to work around their schedule to get ...

On August 16 and 17, the Shlewa dance group participated in the International Festival of Song and Dance, competing alongside ...

The establishment of a new political system in Syria marked the complete dissolution of the previous regime and ushered in a period of restructuring across state institutions.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, after Israel ...

A suicide bomber posing as a dairy deliveryman struck a Kurdish security headquarters Wednesday, setting off a series of rapid-fire attacks against the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk that killed ...

Days of torrential rains have unleashed floods in southeast India that have killed dozens of people and forced the evacuation of more than 70,000 others from hundreds of low-lying villages.

Iraqi officials have begun excavating a suspected mass grave left by the Islamic State extremist group. Local authorities are collaborating with various agencies to carry out the excavation at ...