Türkiye's ascension as a global power, role as a leader in alliances and growing defense industry challenges the regional ...

Autonomous regions exist in many different contexts around the world. While some countries decide to embrace autonomy fully ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

BAGHDAD, March 23 (Reuters) - Iraq’s Kurdistan region is producing 286,000 barrels of crude oil per day, Iraqi oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani told state television on Sunday, citing secondary ...

SAITAMA—A group of Kurdish residents has sued an organizer ... said the group wants to realize a society where ethnic minorities and non-Japanese residents can live without fear.

Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says ...

Authoritarian consolidation might have accelerated border deal-making on the paper, but it may also impede deal-making on the ground.

Despite their shared desire for self-determination, the plight of the Palestinian people attracts far more media and academic ...

The ethnic group, whose population is often put at between 10 and 15 million, resides on arid lands divided by the borders of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. Like the Kurds, whose historic ...

The situation escalated as stick-wielding government loyalists chanted inflammatory slogans against Sunni Kurds, whose ...

Kurdish residents in Japan celebrated the Newroz festival in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on March 23 to welcome spring and their new year. About 1,000 people, many dressed in their ethnic costumes, ...