Komala leader Abdulla Mohtadi told Newsweek that "the regime might collapse under pressure" if the U.S. lends its support.

This year’s Newroz celebrations are referred to by Kurds as Newrozi Khaposhi, meaning khaki-wearing Newroz. The large turnout for the celebrations across major cities was unprecedented and took social ...

How does this regional commotion impact a century-old quest by Kurds for statehood? In the past century, two diaspora-based states, viz. Israel and Armenia, have been created in West Asia.

From the Zilan Valley Massacre to the tragedies of Mahabad and Amuda, and more recently, the atrocities in Sinjar, Afrin, and Serekaniye, these events are but a fraction of the systematic genocidal ...

Following Mahabad's collapse under Iranian pressure ... whose government promised better treatment of the Kurds. Initially hopeful, Barzani collaborated with Baghdad, but broken promises soon led to ...

India could go further, however, and establish an ambassador to Kurdistan to travel from Mahabad in Iran to Kobane in Syria and from Diyarbakir in Turkey to Erbil in Iraq. For India, a bet on the ...

Kurds defied this effort, seeing it as an affront to their cultural freedom. In 1946, they rebelled and formed the Kurdish Mahabad Republic with Soviet backing. Yet, this republic collapsed ...

Syrian Kurds and Taiwan: A Bold Partnership Against Erdogan The Turkish Army and the jihadi forces they support in Syria prepare to stamp out the Kurdish self-governing region in northeast Syria.

the Kurds founded several independent states, such as Mitanni, the Median Empire, the Shaddadid dynasty, the Emirate of Botan, the Hakkari Emirate, the Marwanid state, the Ayyubid dynasty and the last ...

a short-lived Kurdish self-governing unrecognised state in present-day Iran of the Republic of Mahabad. That said, Kurds have produced notable figures such as Saladin, or Salah ad-Din Ayyubi, who ...