Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire the Kurdish population of northern Iraq has suffered at the hands of a series of hard-line rulers. With no country to call their own, Iraqi Kurds have been ...

Often times, the result was violent conflict and repression. This history has a clear lesson: without addressing the Kurds’ cultural, linguistic, and political demands, achieving peace and ...

Kurds have been struggling for autonomy for more than a century, and all four of these countries in one way or another have denied them greater autonomy or full independence. Often times, the result ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time ...

As Kurds themselves face persecution from both Turkey and Iran, their violence against Assyrians has only intensified through ...

Kurdish fighters attempted to establish an independent homeland in Iran in 1946, but their success was only temporary. (photo: Mahmud Efendi, courtesy www.akaKURDISTAN.com) The first -- and brief ...

This year’s Newroz celebrations in Istanbul were among the largest in recent history, with hundreds of thousands gathering at ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Thousands of Kurds gathered in an iconic park in southeast Turkey on Friday to celebrate Newroz, ...