Residents of the Kurdish city of Afrin in northwest Syria were able to freely celebrate Newroz (the New Year) for the first ...

The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

Two dozen national flags fly in Zak Amin’s classroom. As an English Learner teacher at Moorhead High School, Amin wants his students to feel seen, so these flags reflect the homelands of students ...

Iranian authorities have placed the blame on a single individual for inciting ethnic tensions after anti-Kurdish slogans were ...

Kawaguchi has a population of about 600,000 and around 3,000 Kurdish people live there and in the neighboring city of Warabi. A Kurdish restaurant owner in Kawaguchi said he has been the target of ...

Monitoring groups said hundreds of civilians were killed in revenge attacks, primarily targeting members of the Alawite ...

Turkey was headed for a fourth straight night of protests late Saturday, as the biggest street unrest the country has seen ...

Following the recent attacks carried out against civilians in the Alawite-majority region in Syria’s coastal region, many ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms and disband, and their group declared a cease-fire. By Ben Hubbard and ...