Located about 50 miles southeast of Iraqi Kurdistan's capital, Irbil, Baghaznera is a small village in the TaqTaq district.

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 ...

Assad’s regime, Turkey has intensified its military operations in northern Syria – targeting Kurdish groups and even pursuing ...

and the repeal of Ba'athist decisions on Kurdish land in disputed areas. Kurdish lawmakers, under political pressure, voted for the package despite opposing the personal status law and the amnesty ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged Syria's new leaders to ensure "governance that is representative and ...

Iraq’s parliament passed a long-awaited plan to boost payments to oil companies in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, a ...

The convoy of security forces dispatched by Damascus entered the region on the morning of February 6. Afrin is a historically Kurdish area of Syria, and the changeover in power has been followed ...

Mera Warti rides his vending bike up the snowy mountains of Zini Warte to sell comfort foods to tourists who flock there ...

The European Parliament has condemned Turkish legal action against mayors from opposition parties, and called for municipal officials who have been detained in recent weeks to be released, acquitted ...

A few weeks later, amongst a U.S. withdrawal and subsequent Turkish invasion into areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces, led by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, we argued the United States ...