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

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration aims to empty camps in the northeast of thousands of displaced Syrians and ...

Iraqi forensic officials uncovered the remains of 17 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters - killed during the country’s battles against ...

The newly formed Syrian preparatory committee has declared that armed groups unwilling to disarm will be excluded from the national dialogue on Syria's future. This move could exclude the Kurdish-led ...

Mothers can now give children Kurdish names. The Kurdish language is taught in schools. The new year, Nowruz, can be celebrated openly. The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without ...

Turkey seeks to extend its control in Syria, pushing a colonial-style administration while targeting Kurdish forces. It ...

In 2005, the new Iraqi constitution granted the Kurdish territory in Northern Iraq federal status, marking a historic moment in Kurdish self-determination. Then the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) ...

The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without a state of their own, have been feeling some control over their lives and want to make that permanent with a new government in power.