The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has announced it will disband and end its decades-long armed insurgency. Is this a turning point in Turkey’s century-long conflict with its Kurdish population—or a ...

Mohammed El-Kurd writes “Our reaction to brutality whether violent or nonviolent, altruistic, or vengeful will be what gets printed in the newspaper headline. Politicians will always frame our ...

From translating Kurdish poetry into Finnish to raising trilingual children, Soran Zaki’s journey from Kurdish areas of western Iran to Helsinki is one of cultural preservation and cross ...

As all-out war between Israel and Iran inches closer, authorities in Iraq's Kurdistan Region are appealing for calm and international engagement to contain a potential regional war, even as they ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish PhD student returned to Sulaimani late Monday after fleeing Tehran, describing scenes of panic, shortages, and sleepless nights as conflict between Israel and ...

The Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) on Friday condemned Israel's extensive attack on Iran, warning that using military force to resolve disputes endangers both regional and international ...

Abdo and her sister’s relatives finally learned where they were being held, and Kurdish civil society mounted pressure to secure their release. The sisters were freed on the last day of 2020.

This year, a Kurdish man purportedly affiliated with ISIS attacked Assyrians with an axe during the New Year parade while screaming ISIS slogans. An investigation was promised, a scripted apology ...

Many young Iraqi Kurds are now moving to Baghdad to seek economic opportunity, something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The federal government now has the opportunity to use ...

The 2022 protests were sparked by the killing of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, Jina “Mahsa” Amini. She was killed by the Iranian religious police not only because she was wearing her headscarf ...