The Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples of the Middle East and the region's fourth-largest ethnic group. They speak Kurdish, an Indo-European language, and are predominantly Sunni Muslims. Kurds ...

Turkey's invasion of northern Syria following the U.S. abandonment of their Kurdish allies there has put the spotlight on an ethnic group that has long sought autonomy. The Kurds in Syria say the U.S.

Historically, that meant Iraqi Kurds—especially networks linked to the Barzani tribe. Syria’s Kurds differ in ideology and ...

Kurdish forces faced their first major defeat in Iraq over the weekend, when militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized the towns of Sinjar, Zumar and Wana. The United Nations, ...

I encountered patriarchy and male dominance presiding over women and life, all in conjunction with the occupation of my ...

As the skies over northeastern Syria blackened with smoke this week, as Turkish warplanes swooped down and gunfire and shelling resumed in what had briefly been an oasis of relative peace in the ...

In a rare incident, a PJAK fighter was killed in an Iranian drone strike in Iraqi Kurdistan. A PJAK official insisted that no attack on PJAK would go unanswered. The drone attack, which occurred last ...

Last month, fierce clashes broke out between armed Kurdish groups and Arab militias affiliated with the government of Syria’s embattled president Bashar al-Assad on the outskirts of Rumeilan, an ...

Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces attend the funeral of a fellow fighter, who was killed while fighting against the Islamic State group in the northeastern Syrian Kurdish-majority city of ...

For a few hours, the city of Erbil was in a state of panic. Word came that Gwar, just 30 minutes from the Kurdish capital, had been taken by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and Kurds and ...

In the northern Iraqi city of Halabja, near the border with Iran, we knock on the door of a 16-year-old boy who disappeared. His family says he lied to them, saying he was going on a picnic with a ...

In a televised address on October 29, the president of the Iraqi Kurdish region, Masoud Barzani, declared that he would step down from his post. It remains unclear whether Barzani, son of the ...