In an effort to gain international recognition for their cases as genocide, the relatives of the Anfal victims, Kakais, ...

The whole world is giving up on us because we’re a catapult. Only Israel stands by us— on the side of the Druze, the Kurds, and the Alawites.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Syrian Kurdish Commander Demands Accountability for Those Behind Mass Killings By Orhan Qereman QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - The commander of a Kurdish-led force in Syria said on Sunday the country ...

On a warm late winter Saturday, the Kurdish minority of Aleppo celebrated International Women’s Day in a public park that looked and felt more like a fortress. Syria’s civil war had supposedly ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – The financial assistance of Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani for February was distributed to over 3,500 Yezidi survivors who were rescued from the hands of the ...

The Yezidi people, who speak Kurdish-Kurmanji, have suffered at least 72 genocides throughout their history. The United Nations has officially recognized the 2014 atrocities as genocide. European ...

The Kurdish-Kurmanji-speaking community has suffered at least ... The United Nations later recognized the atrocities against the Yezidi people as genocide. More than 3,500 Yezidis have been rescued so ...

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent state in Syria amid the chaos gripping the region, it could accelerate secessionist movements in other Kurdish areas of the Middle East.

CAIRO (AP) — Nearly 100 people died of cholera in two weeks since the waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan’s White Nile State, an international aid group said. Doctors Without Borders — also ...

At the end of four months of dialogue launched by the Turkish authorities and led by the main pro-Kurdish party, DEM, it undeniably marks a turning point in the conflict between the PKK and Turkey.

I make this call and take historical responsibility,” read the letter from Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish guerrilla, on Thursday, 27 February. This could be the last chance for ...

Some Kurds expressed disappointment at his call ... and remember the atrocities committed by ISIS against the Kurdish-Yezidi community. It is crucial to preserve these memories to prevent the ...