The 12-day confrontation between Iran and Israel in June 2025 may not have escalated into a full-scale regional war, but it ...

In the 1990s when the Turkish government fought a pitiless war against the PKK, banned Kurdish language, criminalized ...

Iranians protest in Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Iran’s Kurdistan region, on Sept. 19 after the death of a young Kurdish woman in police custody in Tehran. (AFP/Getty Images) ...

Clashes broke out for a second day in Paris on Saturday between police and Kurdish protestors angry at the killing of three members of their community by a gunman.

A man was killed in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region late Sunday during protests against power cuts, residents and a medical source told AFP.

Nationwide protests over the death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of Iran's morality police have been at their most intense in the northwestern areas where the majority of the ...

Dara Qureshi scrolls through the contacts on his phone, each name an alias for activists across the border in neighboring Iran, where protests have been raging for two weeks.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Meghan Bodette, the director of research at the Kurdish Peace Institute, about the protests in the Kurdish region in Iran following the death of a young woman last week.

Iran has taken aim at a small Kurdish-majority city in its most recent attempt to fight back against protests that have raged in the country for over two months.

All minorities in Iran struggling for equality know the only way they can get it is with the downfall of a system that favors Persian men and no one else.

Kurds staged protests in Paris Saturday in the wake of a shooting that left three people dead as reports emerged the shooter was motivated by racism.

A man was killed late Sunday during protests over power cuts in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, according to news agency AFP.