Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire the Kurdish population of northern Iraq has suffered at the hands of a series of hard-line rulers. With no country to call their own, Iraqi Kurds have been ...

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

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Israel cannot allow its enemies to ...

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The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without a state of their own, have been feeling some control over their lives and want to make that permanent with a new government in power.

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... Mothers can now give children Kurdish names. The Kurdish language is taught in schools. The new year, Nowruz, can ...