The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Kurdish groups in Iran and Iraq have faced incredible hardships. They have persevered. Now they sense that their moment has ...

A stateless ethnic group of more than 30 million people, their homegrown militia has a reputation as an effective fighting force ...

Spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, the ethnic group of 40 million has long sought, and fought for, greater autonomy.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to journalist Wladimir van Wilgenburg about the role Kurds may play in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

Iraqi Kurdish officials have told The Associated Press that thousands of battle-hardened Kurds in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran with U.S. backing.

Just causes are not defeated only through repression; they are also defeated when they are hijacked and used in the wars of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a population exceeding 30 million, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state. Instead, they ...

As US-Israeli strikes continue, attention is turning to Iran's Kurdish units, now united in an unprecedented coalition. But the Kurds' history, marked by fragile alliances and betrayals, fuels both ...

But the air campaign alone, while devastating, is unlikely to bring that about, so Washington appears to be assessing if it ...

The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran and the Trump administration ...

With a population exceeding 30 million, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state. Instead, they are spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Kurds have been ...