The Kurds are the world’s largest stateless ethnic group, with an estimated 25 to 30 million people living as minorities across Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkiye. Fragmentation and complex regional ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...

This history has a clear lesson: without addressing the Kurds’ cultural, linguistic, and political demands, achieving peace and stability in the Middle East is impossible.

1) Kurds may prove a powerful explosive in any coup the Communists may try in the unstable Middle Eastern nations, particularly Iran and Iraq (last week, in addition to his other troubles, Iran ...

Authoritarianism in the Middle East To grasp the Kurds’ potential as stabilizing actors, one must understand the recent political history of the region.

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a ...

Across the Middle East, Kurds are celebrating Nowruz, a traditional holiday marking the arrival of spring and the new year, which has reached new heights of public celebration this year. Members ...

Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating wit h the ...

The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decades long series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and all-out wars.

More than 200 Kurds are currently being held in prisons across Afrin, northwestern Syria, due to their ethnicity and ...

FOR much of the past century, as the Kurds dreamed of autonomy in Turkey and the Middle East, armed groups drove the agenda. Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the largest such group, the ...