Highlighting decades-long struggle for Kurdish rights and self-determination, Barzani reaffirms the constitutional and ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group on Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday of committing “genocide” of the Kurdish people after the NATO leader likened Netanyahu to Nazi leader ...

In 1991, Saddam Hussein used tanks and helicopters to subdue rebelling Kurds in northern Iraq. Terrified that Hussein would again use chemical weapons, as he had in 1988, millions of the country’s ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, two days after ...

A cautious calm spread Tuesday in neighborhoods of Aleppo in northern Syria after overnight clashes between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters. The violence came as tensions grow between the ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The main drag in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city, is – in a word – alive. Vendors slice open bright pink watermelons. An elderly man stirs a pot of sherbet, a sweet, ...

PARIS — Members of France's Kurdish community and anti-racism activists joined together in mourning and anger on Saturday in Paris after three people were killed at a Kurdish cultural center in an ...

A Kurdish-led group in Syria said Monday that its fighters alongside U.S. forces have arrested a wanted militant with the Islamic State group that continues to stage attacks in the region. There are ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq will resume exporting oil from the country's northern, semiautonomous Kurdish region through Turkey’s Ceyhan port after exports had been halted for more than two years, officials ...