History sometimes fits into a single scene, a single frame. In that frame, the entire contradiction, the entire hypocrisy of ...

Last week, around 30 Kurdish fighters gathered alongside Iraqi and Turkish officials at a cave complex in the rugged mountains outside Sulaymaniyah, a city in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern ...

Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a ...

IRBIL, Iraq — The closest U.S. allies in Iraq — the Kurds — feel abandoned by Washington these days and say war with the Arab-dominated central government is likely without American pressure to ...

This Iranian influence is not limited to Baghdad but extends into northern Iraq through Kurdish groups who originally came from Iran, particularly from the city of Mahabad under the leadership of ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The main drag in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city, is – in a word – alive. Vendors slice open bright pink watermelons. An elderly man stirs a pot of sherbet, a sweet, ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — From abroad, Iranian Kurdish dissident groups have been watching closely for signs that Iran’s theocracy could falter in its grip on the country, battered by Israeli airstrikes in ...

A militant Kurdish group end its struggle against Turkey: grieving mothers ask if it was worth the high cost Two Kurdish mothers reckon with what peace could mean after decades of war DIYARBAKIR, ...