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

KOYA, Iraq - High up in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, small groups of men are readying themselves for the perilous journey across the border into Iran. Spring has come to the lush valleys and ...

PKK is trying to get Iranian Kurds interested in joining a Kurdish state. Iran accuses the United States of stirring up its minorities, but the half of the population that isn't ethnic Iranian has ...