The Middle East’s Kurds are being bombed, shot at and arrested across four countries. Scores have died in political unrest in northwest Iran. Some two dozen have died in airstrikes on northern Syria.

A new textbook about atrocities committed by Iraq’s Baath regime sparked concern among Kurdish students and officials, who ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A group of 40 Kurds from the Kurdistan Region who had been stranded in Libya after trying to reach ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Richard B. Levine/Lev Radin/Zuma Press We created Justice for Kurds in 2018, after ...

In The Kurds and the State, derived from her University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertation, political scientist [Denise] Natali explores how Kurdish nationalism developed in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters, doubling ...

The Kurdish provinces of Iraq are a world apart from the country inhabited by their fellow citizens. Basic services like electricity and fuel are good and increasingly available to all Kurds. Booming ...

Hundreds of people living in northern Syria near the Turkish border are fleeing, herding their loved ones and running from an unknown fate as fires blaze behind them. These people are members of an ...

Bruinessen says The Kurds have always had the idea of a Kurdish State. According to him Iraqi Kurds had no choice but to ask United States support. Bruinessen claims: KADEK wants to begin negotiations ...

Pity the plight of the Kurds. The Kurds often quip that they are the largest people without a nation. That’s true. And they also say they have “no friends but the mountains.” That, too, is true. No ...

Iraq is like trying to nail down a warped board. As soon as we start to get a handle on one problem, like the violence in Anbar province, another, such as what’s currently brewing in Kurdistan, creeps ...

Kirkuk would be highly desirable for Kurds who wanted to include it into the autonomous Kurdish region in the north. Mr. SHADID: That's right. Kirkuk is probably the most volatile city in Iraq because ...