Massacres, often ignored or forgotten by the outside world but not by their victims, are one of the great driving forces of ...

One of the crucial elements WOMAD has going for it is the open-minded audience, which mixes people of all ages, often attending as a family. Their tastes may be broad, but the vibe of the festival ...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have deployed to Kurdish areas, setting up temporary checkpoints to ...

Syria’s new government reached a landmark agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Monday to integrate “all ...

A popular singer has been given a severe flogging over the lyrics in one of his song. Mehdi Yarrahi’s sang ‘take off your ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...

Andalibi is a widely respected nay (reed flute) player and an in-demand side player virtuoso for top traditional Persian ...

Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the ...

A prominent Iranian pop singer who made a song urging women to remove their headscarves said Wednesday that he was willing to ...

On the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, some of those who had lost relatives fighting on the side of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK ...

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of ...