The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

Local officials confirmed to VOA on Thursday that a mass grave containing the remains of 17 people has been found in Hawija ...

Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

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 ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the upheaval in neighboring Syria as an opportunity to thwart Kurdish nationalism.

He said the two sides are negotiating with the help of mediators to find compromises regarding Syria’s future — including the ...

Aid workers and camp officials - led by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led force that helps run a ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish opposition parties on Thursday slammed the exclusion of Kurds from a top committee tasked ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Jordan will come together to fight the remnants of the ...

The new year, Nowruz, can be celebrated openly. 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 ...