The salience of Kurdish political, social, economic and cultural developments for the Middle East and for wider geopolitics is being increasingly reflected in the upsurge of research in this area.

Kurdish sources put that figure at more than 180,000. Fleeing Saddam with the Kurds Remembering the Kurdish uprising of 1991 The 'beauty' and the horror of the Iran-Iraq war At the time ...

I am examining the future progress of the Kurdish Question and its consequences. The new Kurdish assertiveness is evident not only in Iraq but also in Syria, where the YPJ, a Kurdish militia ...

Kurdish minorities are sounding the alarm over an expected U.S. downsizing from Iraq by 2026, worried they will be left vulnerable to extremist attacks that have frequently targeted the group.

The agreement was reached between the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and local tribal leaders Members of the Kurdish internal security forces (Asayish ...

KAWAGUCHI, Saitama Prefecture--Hate speech has again reared its ugly head, in this case against the Kurdish community living close to Tokyo. It follows an altogether familiar pattern: phone calls ...

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Turkey's defence ministry tweeted the "hour of reckoning" had come with a photo of a fighter-jet Turkey has launched air strikes on Kurdish targets in Iraq and Syria, a week after a bombing in ...

The Kurdish village of Kakhira in Syria’s Afrin district came under siege Sunday after fighters affiliated with the Suleiman Shah Brigade cut off internet access and set up additional ...

Kazankiran, 67, who is Kurdish, the largest minority group in Turkey, visited Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, where he used to live, in May. He came to Japan in the 1990s. Kazankiran applied for ...

One longstanding sore between the two countries Pezeshkian is also looking to tackle, however, is the continuing presence of Iranian Kurdish separatist movements in Iraq. Baghdad and Tehran signed ...