Ethnic Kurds are helping members of the Islamic State group in the battle for the key Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, sharing their knowledge of the local terrain and language with the extremists ...

Most Kurds make their living farming mountainous terrain which has often served as a refuge from enemies. As one Kurdish saying goes, "The Kurds have no friends -- no friends but the mountains." ...

The terrain is bare and rocky. At night, temperatures plunge below freezing. Fatima, 31, tells ... As the Kurds have poured out of the border areas, Arabs have been bussed in ...

Drawn by the craggy terrain and Kurdish communities, ... The region is home to nearly half the world’s Kurds. Protti, twenty-six, was drawn to the craggy, expansive terrain, ...

The Kurds flooded into Kerkuk and kept coming in the next two years until some 200,000 or more Kurds had moved into the city. They proceeded to purge various neighborhoods of their inhabitants.

The Kurds have many different political groups and militias spread across the region. The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has been fighting for autonomy in eastern Turkey for three decades.

Now, in a world dotted with 198 nation-states, the Kurds represent the largest “nation” without a “state.” Stuck in the center of every Middle East conflict, the Kurds are a rarity: a ...

The Kurds run more than a dozen camps that hold tens of thousands of displaced people. The offensive may displace tens of thousands of others who are fleeing southward to escape the violence.

Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but ...

America is strongest when we stand firmly with those who share our values — and as secretary of state I saw the Kurds’ friendship in action.

Nearly 700,000 Kurds were forcibly removed from their homes by Turkish forces; ... The rugged terrain of much of Kurdistan has provided periodic shelter for Kurdish fighters and civilians.