By John Lee. The Zagros Mountain Trail in Iraqi Kurdistan has won the Best Wider World Tourism Project award from the British ...

Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a ...

Turkey’s first bi-monthly magazine on Kurdish history has hit the bookshelves. Published in Turkish, “Kürt Tarihi” (“Kurdish History”) delves into the annals of the Kurdish past, long overlooked by ...

Kurdish artist Abdulrahman Ahmed describes Kurdish art as "the living memory of a people" that preserves identity through songs born from suffering. During his first visit to the Kurdistan Region, the ...

With a population exceeding 30 million, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state. Instead, they are spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Kurds have been ...

To understand a person is sometimes to hold onto the sentence they left behind: “The thought that if I fall as a martyr one ...

Fifty years after Franco's death, Spain grapples with his legacy as families race to exhume mass graves, a painful quest ...

The Kurds, an ethnic minority with a distinct culture and language, have long fought for their own homeland — Shwan MOHAMMED Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call to disarm sparked ...

David McDowall’s ground-breaking modern history of the Kurds was first published in 1996. It became a foundation text for the subsequent growth of scholarship on the Kurds and, revised and updated ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Early voting in Iraq saw a high turnout on Sunday as security forces and displaced persons cast ...