Kurdish leaders affiliated with the PKK are more cautious about dissolving the party. They believe it is unwise to abandon 45 ...

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 ...

If peace comes, he will go back right away, he says. “We wish it will work so we can return.” In the border area of Amedi in Iraq's Dohuk province — once a thriving agricultural community — around 200 ...

“We wish it will work so we can return.” In the border area of Amedi in Iraq's Dohuk province — once a thriving agricultural community — around 200 villages had been emptied of their ...

Thousands of people celebrated the Kurdish Newroz spring festival on Thursday in Dohuk in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq. (AP video/Rashid Yahya) ...

She covered the violence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria from Baghdad, Erbil and Dohuk. From Beirut, she was the first to report on widespread malnutrition and starvation inside a besieged ...

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