The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

These meetings culminated in Öcalan’s February 27 statement, in which he urged his organization to lay down arms and abandon ...

such as the use of the Kurdish language and traditional dress. Kurds defied this effort, seeing it as an affront to their cultural freedom. In 1946, they rebelled and formed the Kurdish Mahabad ...

such as the use of the Kurdish language and traditional dress. Kurds defied this effort, seeing it as an affront to their cultural freedom. In 1946, they rebelled and formed the Kurdish Mahabad ...

In the first visit by a Canadian journalist in years, The Globe reports on the cultural tensions and economic turmoil challenging the current Islamic regime ...

The ex-Soviet country has in recent years championed “traditional” Tajik attire, banning “clothing alien to national culture” last year, while trying to stamp out what they see as ...

U.S. pressures Iraq to restart pipeline to Turkey, halt Kurdish oil smuggling to Iran - sources Iran views ally Iraq as vital to keeping its economy afloat Kurdish oil export resumption faces ...

Although the conference was called to chart the country’s future, the Kurdish-led militia that controls much of Syria’s northeast was not invited. By Raja Abdulrahim and Euan Ward Reporting fr ...

BAGHDAD — A Turkish opposition party delegation arrived in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region Sunday against the backdrop of peace efforts between Ankara and a banned Kurdish separatist ...