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Members of Frances 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 [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf and Farnaz Fassihi The protests that have swept Iran following the death of a woman in police custody have been especially intense in the country's minority Kurdish [...]

Byline: DON JACOBSON Kurds staged anti-racism protests in Paris Saturday in the wake of a shooting that left three people dead as reports emerged the shooter was motivated by racism. [...]

Byline: Karlos Zurutuza SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, Nov 25 (IPS) - It's mostly people in their twenties sitting on a terrace in the shade of a beautiful grove of trees: black clothes, [...]

The Kurds of northeastern Syria dreamed of establishing an autonomous, multiethnic and gender-equal utopia. Instead, their breakaway region has been engulfed in conflict since its creation. QAMISHLI, Syria -- Suad [...]

A recent art show in a major Kurdish city in Turkey aimed to uplift a region crushed by years of conflict. It ended up serving as a reminder of how [...]

2022 JUN 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Science Letter -- Data detailed on social science have been presented. According to news reporting out of Sanandaj, [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim IRBIL, Iraq - As foreign powers jostle for control of northeast Syria, a new wave of refugees is trudging into Iraq, fearful, uncertain, and [...]

Byline: Morgan Krakow Mevan Babakar, who lives in England, wanted to say thank you, but first she had to find the man who had given her a bicycle while she [...]

Byline: Dominique Soguel Correspondent Abstract: In the autonomous region of northern Syria, a Kurdish university is providing a new generation with the tools to build their society. Which university to [...]

Byline: Alex Horton Saddam Hussein was in hiding, a brutal insurgency was forming and Iraq's fragile infrastructure was in a meltdown. So the Kurdish village chiefs made a simple plea [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung and Kareem Fahim In an effort to repair tattered relations, the Trump administration has told Turkey it will move to rein in Kurdish fighters that have been [...]

Byline: Chad Garland BASHIQA, Iraq - Life is trickling back into this northern Iraq town that was cleared of Islamic State fighters in November, and so is the alcohol. Called [...]

London: Stop The Wear Coalition UK has issued the following news release: On Newroz 2018, the new year celebration of Kurdish and other communities on March 21st, UK Prime Minister [...]

Byline: Liz Sly Editor's note: For complicated reasons to do with war and politics, the only way in and out of the enclave controlled by Syria's Kurds is on a [...]

Byline: Peter Holley IRBIL, Iraq - Hassan Jamil's love affair with Donald Trump began in the thick of the American presidential campaign, when he found himself glued to his television [...]

Byline: Neval Pektas The day after Donald Trump won the presidential election, my 5-year-old daughter was identified by a classmate as having black skin. 'Trump doesn't like black people,' the [...]

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey -- In a region where patriarchy generally is the rule, Kurdish society has long stood out as an exception. A wife who is beaten by her husband can [...]

When three suicide bombers attacked Istanbul's main airport on Tuesday, killing at least 41 people, Turkey began a ritual that it has refined with so many recent bombings: looking for [...]

Byline: Masrour Barzani Throughout the modern history of Iraq, we have lived in denial. By we, I mean the Kurdish people, who comprise one-quarter of the country; the Arabs and [...]

Byline: Liz Sly MANBIJ, Syria -- For complicated reasons to do with war and politics, the only way in and out of the enclave controlled by Syria's Kurds is on [...]

KARS, Turkey -- ''WE have enemies.'' The old Kurdish woman said this by way of running me off. I had trekked into her mountain hamlet at dusk, hoping to camp [...]

Byline: Dominique Soguel Going against the flow of recent days, Zaim Mahmoud drags his three children in the direction of bombings and clashes. For this family, one of tens of [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung;Carol Morello ISTANBUL -- Turkey and the United States continued Saturday to disagree about the status of Kurdish forces who have become a key part of the U.S. [...]

Life in the Qandil Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan The window is open and only the mice racing on the first floor interrupt the whistling of the cicadas. It's hot. Wiria [...]

Liverpool: University of Liverpool, United Kingdom has issued the following news release: Dr Gaetano Pentassuglia is a Reader in International Law and Human Rights at the University of Liverpool's School [...]

SIRNAK, Turkey -- Portraits of Mevlude Gungen's two eldest children hang just above the television, the only piece of furniture in her spare living room. On a recent day, the [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of a Syrian city on Saturday for the funeral of a celebrated Kurdish opposition leader whose assassination the [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Tucked away in an often-overlooked arc of northern Iraq, Kurds launched their 'Kurdish Spring' simply enough in mid-February, in solidarity with Tunisians and Egyptians who had toppled [...]

Diyarbakir, Turkey A BALEFUL love song wafted from the Vizyon Muzik Market. Not so long ago playing Kurdish music over a loudspeaker into the streets here might have provoked the [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Kurdish mother Samiye was not surprised when her daughter left college earlier this year and disappeared 'into the mountains' to join the Kurdish rebels. Her son was [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson For 20 years, Tekin Cifci explored his native Kurdish language in secret, hiding behind a pseudonym when writing for semi-underground Kurdish magazines. For much of that time [...]

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq -- Human Rights Watch urged Kurdistan's government on Wednesday to ban genital cutting of women and girls, a practice the organization said is widespread and dangerous there, but [...]

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey took his message of inclusion into the center of Turkey's Kurdish heartland on Saturday, telling this city, once the center of Kurdish resistance, […]

THE roses were in full bloom as throngs of women in flowery head scarves swooped in to claim their spots in Sami Rahman Park, a triangular slice of greenery on […]

The phone rang, and it was answered by a Kurdish security commander, Hallo Najat, sitting in his office in this deeply divided city. On the line, he said, was a […]

On a barren, trash-strewn plain on the outskirts of this city, two groups -- one poor and Kurdish, the other displaced and Arab -- huddle side by side in distrust […]

While Turkish and American officials have stepped up criticism of Iraqi Kurdish leaders for failing to curb the guerrilla fighters who have sanctuary in northern Iraq, a top British official […]

Miles from downtown, Nashville's southern neighborhoods are home to a thriving enclave of Kurdish immigrants. Just off a wide commercial strip called Nolensville Pike, women in head scarves shop at […]

NEW YORK Novelist Orhan Pamuk, an international symbol of literary and social conscience, whose poetic, melancholy journeys into the soul of his native Turkey have brought him the many blessings [...]