Located about 50 miles southeast of Iraqi Kurdistan's capital, Irbil, Baghaznera is a small village in the TaqTaq district.

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

Despite his mercurial style, we probably can tell a lot about the new Donald Trump administration’s approach to Rojava (the ...

Kurds are now allowed to study their own language, though only in private classes, and welfare programs have helped alleviate the poverty of Kurdish areas. Erdogan’s reforms, in fact ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian Kurdish opposition groups called for a general strike in the western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) on Wednesday to condemn the Islamic republic's death sentences for ...

The convoy of security forces dispatched by Damascus entered the region on the morning of February 6. Afrin is a historically Kurdish area of Syria, and the changeover in power has been followed ...

Days before the new Damascus government’s security forces entered Afrin, a Kurdish-majority Afrin area of the Aleppo ...

WILLIAM KEO FOR 'LE MONDE' An agreement brokered by Russia the same year allowed Assad's army to deploy in several Kurdish areas, including parts of al-Hasakah and Kamechliyé, to contain the ...

The Kurdish language is in decline among the younger generations of Kurds in northeast Turkey, where education is primarily ...