A notorious Kurdish gangster has fled Turkey to avoid extradition on drug-trafficking charges, a Swedish prosecutor has told The National. Rawa Majid, 39, known as the Kurdish Fox, had been living in ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s detention sparks mass protests across Türkiye. As President Erdoğan tightens control, ...

A traditionally nomadic society spread across modern day Turkiye, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Armenia, the Kurdish people have been moving around for more than a century in search for Kurdistan — a ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon ...

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

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurds in Syria do not seek the division of the country but rather want their rights safeguarded through “decentralization and democracy,” an official from northeast ...

In Syria, many Kurds celebrated Nowruz in secret under Assad. With him gone, Kurdish people are throwing their biggest spring equinox party in decades. But some still fear for their safety.

This leaves many Kurds perplexed, as they have long viewed the Kurdish struggle as a fight for independent Kurdistan or, at the very least, a democratic autonomous administration within existing ...

Iraq — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked ... and eventual merging of the SDF into the Syrian army. Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Residents of the Kurdish city of Afrin in northwest Syria were able to freely celebrate Newroz (the New Year) for the first time since the enclave was invaded by militia ...

green and yellow colours emblematic of Kurdish identity and chanting in support of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group. Ocalan, held in a Turkish ...