Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time ...

As Kurds themselves face persecution from both Turkey and Iran, their violence against Assyrians has only intensified through ...

Al-Maliki's order came a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered to help purge militia members from Iraqi security forces. He criticized the government for denying ...

Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki promised Saturday to smoke out Kurdish separatist rebels using Iraq as a base to launch attacks into neighboring Turkey. The Iraqi leader spoke at a gathering of ...

The developments in the Middle East over the past year have been rapid and surprising. One of these surprises is the ...

GUHARZE, Iraq — Iraqi Kurdish villagers, displaced by fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants that has played out for years in northern Iraq, are finally allowing themselves to ...

It was a development in the Syrian drama almost as unexpected as the stunningly swift fall of the Assad regime that had ...

The Iranian scholar highlighted that the greatest benefit the Iraqi federal government could gain from the Kurdistan Region is through granting the Kurds their rights and upholding Iraq’s ...

Turkish forces killed 24 Kurdish gunmen in northern Iraq and Syria over the past week, the defense ministry said on Thursday, ...

Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call to disarm sparked relief but also fears for the future among Kurds in Syria and Iraq, who long for peace after fighting hard for autonomy.