Kurdish farmer Mohammed Amin was released on bail Monday after being questioned over allegedly insulting an Iraqi soldier.

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency against the government in neighboring Turkey.

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An unidentified airstrike targeted a mountain village in eastern Sulaimani province, a conflict monitor reported on Thursday. “At 11:40 pm on ...

Adil Tahir Qadir fled his village of Barchi, on Mount Matin in 1988, when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein launched a brutal campaign against the area's Kurdish population. He now lives in a newly ...

Syria's interim government said it has reached a landmark agreement to integrate Kurdish-led forces into state institutions ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949, one of six siblings in a mixed Turkish-Kurdish peasant family in Omerli, a village in Turkey's southeast. His mother tongue is Turkish. He became a left-wing ...

In 1963, the Zibari Clan, a prominent Kurdish tribe, stole 13.5 acres of land from the village of Cham Rabatkeh. Later, in 1991, entire Assyrian villages such as Qarawola, Yousif Ava, and Shwadin ...