Statements by the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, an umbrella organisation of Kurdish left organisations, and the ...

Tensions have escalated between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the country's ...

They’ve proven themselves to be one of America’s most reliable partners in the Middle East — but the Kurdish people still have no real homeland of their own. As Masrour Barzani, the prime ...

"We think that the administration should have an open-door policy with the Democratic opposition to the Iranian regime, like Kurdish people, like different ethnic minorities, different ethnic ...

In his Sunday meeting, the preeminent Kurdish leader emphasized that the Kurdish people’s grievances are with successive governments in Baghdad, not with the peoples and communities of Iraq.

A new United Nations report says that Iran carried out executions at “an alarming rate” last year with at least 975 people ...

So for me, this region with a dark past is now indelibly just these joyous scenes from when I finally did visit in March — of Kurdish people celebrating the springtime Nowruz festival with more ...

With the founding of the Kurdistan Workers‘ Party (PKK) on 27 November 1978, the struggle to overcome the annihilation and denial of the Kurdish people began. In 1984, a guerrilla war began that ...

Iraq’s judiciary is nominally independent. In practice, civil society watchdogs and former officials say it answers to ...

Kurdish-run camps and prisons in the northeast hold tens of thousands of people, many with alleged or perceived links to Isis, more than five years after Isis’s territorial defeat in Syria.

The agreement to allow Syrians to return from al-Hol camp comes amid a push for closer cooperation between Damascus and Kurdish authorities in the country's northeast. Syria’s national ...

For more than four decades, the Kurdish militant group known as the PKK waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that left some 40,000 people dead and reshaped the lives of millions.