The Kurds deserve better — how the US can support an ally’s bid for freedom By Mike Pompeo Published May 20, 2025, 6:55 p.m. ET ...

The Biden administration appears poised to abandon one of Washington’s most reliable and trustworthy partners in the Arab world: Iraq’s Kurdish population. Iraq’s Kurds shouldered much of ...

NPR's Leil Fadel asks Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, whether Kurds in the semi-autonomous northwest region have a voice in the new government.

Kurds opposed to President Tayyip Erdogan fear victory for him in Turkey's presidential election could reinforce a crackdown the state has been waging against them for years, alarmed by a surge in ...

Any such shift would imperil the Kurds’ efforts to implement a unique form of women-led, grassroots direct democracy throughout the region formally known as North and East Syria, repeating the ...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters, doubling down on a decentralised ...

We created Justice for Kurds in 2018, after Turkey’s attack on the Syrian region of Afrin, to defend and pay tribute to one of the West’s most loyal friends. The Kurds are among the few ...

The Kurds, a distinct ethnic group living in Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq, need the US’s attention now.

The Kurds can also use the threat of large numbers of refugees to rattle the West. A full takeover of Kurdistan by central Iraq could trigger an exodus to Turkey and thence to Europe.

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad ...