Pro-Kurdish Turkish lawmakers conveyed a message on Sunday to Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani from Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), who is expected ...

The Iraqi parliament recently passed a law to return occupied Kurdish and Turkmen lands. However, over the weekend, Kurdish farmers in Kirkuk were stopped by the Iraqi army while trying to work on ...

Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is working on a "democratic" settlement to the four-decade conflict between Turkey and Kurdish militants, a pro-Kurdish party delegation member said on Monday ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A Turkish opposition party delegation arrived in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region Sunday against the backdrop of peace efforts between Ankara and a banned Kurdish separatist ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The preparatory committee for Syria’s National Dialogue Conference plans to meet with "Kurdish elites" as part of its ongoing preparations for the event, the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Syrian interim President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, met with locals in Afrin on Saturday, the majority of whom were Kurds. During the meeting, he pledged to remove armed ...

Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi yesterday met Head of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq H E ...

He agreed to tell The Asahi Shimbun how his social media posts from Turkey promoted anti-Kurd sentiment in Japan, and why he did it. Discrimination against Kurds in Japan, particularly in ...

Over the last two decades, developments in the Middle East have helped transform the Kurds’ struggle for greater recognition and even self-determination from a country-specific issue to a ...

KAWAGUCHI, Saitama Prefecture--Kurds in a pocket of Saitama Prefecture dubbed “Warabistan” are facing economic catastrophe after losing work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, supporters say.

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Demonstrators march to demand the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan in Qamishli, northeastern Syria ...