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.

Many Kurdish families were among the Syrians who visited the Tadamun area of Damascus after the fall of the regime of Bashar ...

Kurds are now allowed to study their own language, though only in private classes, and welfare programs have helped alleviate the poverty of Kurdish areas. Erdogan’s reforms, in fact ...

Despite his mercurial style, we probably can tell a lot about the new Donald Trump administration’s approach to Rojava (the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian Kurdish opposition groups called for a general strike in the western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) on Wednesday to condemn the Islamic republic's death sentences for ...

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 ...

WILLIAM KEO FOR 'LE MONDE' An agreement brokered by Russia the same year allowed Assad's army to deploy in several Kurdish areas, including parts of al-Hasakah and Kamechliyé, to contain the ...

How much autonomy Kurdish factions retain likely hinges on ... gaining control over Arab-majority areas as the U.S. partnered with them in the campaign against Islamic State.