The complex history of the Kurdish people, from nomadic tribes to modern-day struggles for autonomy and recognition.

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

Two million Kurds flee, but are forced to hide out in the mountains as Turkey closes its border. April 1991 – (IRAQ) A safe haven is established in Iraqi Kurdistan by the United States ...

They have now reached another turning point. Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) has called on his ...

The presence of numerous foreign dignitaries at this year’s celebrations highlighted the Kurdistan Region’s growing ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK ... has killed more than 40,000 people since the PKK – now based in the mountains of northern Iraq – launched its armed insurgency in 1984.

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year ... Turkey's southeast and pressed it deep into the steep and unforgiving mountains of northern Iraq," he said. In recent years, the PKK has been limited ...