The prospects of Kurds being able to realise their aspirations for statehood have brightened. At the same time, Kurds remain ...

Many strategic analysts make a mistake by reducing Iran solely to its Persian identity, failing to highlight the ethnic ...

Elham Ahmed, co-chair of Rojava's foreign relations office, told Rudaw in an exclusive interview that Turkey has dramatically ...

A Kurdish teacher in Iran’s Kurdistan province was jailed on Saturday after being sentenced to five years in prison for ...

In this series we explore the Kurdish issue - the persecution, the resistance and their attempts to form a state. We ask what does the future hold for one of the largest stateless ethnic groups in the ...

In late March, members of Japan's Kurdish community gathered at a park just outside Tokyo to celebrate "Newroz," or "New Day," a festival marking the start of spring and the Middle Eastern ethnic ...

The Middle East Institute is proud to host Carol Prunhuber, Sharif Behruz and Idris Ahmedi and for a lecture about the political, social and human rights status of Iran's Kurds, one of the country's ...

Nechirvan Barzani underscored that unity among Kurdish forces and political parties in Syria remains the key to securing the ...

The Kurds are an ethnic group spread across Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran, without a recognized state of their own. In Syria, the Kurdish population is concentrated in the northeast, where they ...

Today there are an estimated 25 million to 40 million Kurds, mostly Muslim, about half in Turkey and most of the others in Iran, Iraq and Syria. They are arguably the largest ethnic group in the ...

Hoshyar Zebari said that Kurdish demands must be “realistic and legitimate,” adding, “Expectations must be grounded in local ...