Amid Middle Eastern upheaval, Kurds recognize Israel’s strategic role in reshaping the region and hope these efforts could lead to regime change in Tehran, paving the way for a sustainable solution.

The Kurds are big men, simple, brutal, suspicious, proud, undisciplined and able. “The only progress worth recording in Kurdish life,” says one Middle Eastern cynic, “is the change from bows ...

Syrian Kurds, who control a quarter of Syria's territory in the north and the northeast, are closely watching events unfold ...

One of the Middle East’s most intractable conflicts may be nearing its end, with ramifications that will be felt far and wide. For half a century, Kurdish militants have fought Turkey for ...

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

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 ...

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with ...

F OR 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 ...

One of the Middle East’s most intractable conflicts may be nearing its end, with ramifications that will be felt far and wide.. For half a century, Kurdish militants have fought Turkey for ...

(CNN) — One of the Middle East’s most intractable conflicts may be nearing its end, with ramifications that will be felt far and wide. For half a century, Kurdish militants have fought Turkey ...