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 ...

Residents of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region are going to the polls in long-awaited parliamentary elections under the shadow of ongoing rivalries, economic instability ...

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 ...

And in 2016, the town was captured by a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Now, Manbij finds itself in the crosshairs once again.

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Two leading members of the Turkish parliament from the country’s pro-Kurdish party said on Monday any resolution to the Kurdish question must begin with ending the isolation of imprisoned ...

In the aftermath of the ruling, Kurdish officials said a preliminary deal has been reached with Baghdad, which will approach Turkey to resume oil imports from the KRG. However, no such request by ...

Coşkan, Canan and Şen, Ercan 2024. The Role of Internal Forced Migration in Understanding Identity-Power Dynamics Among Kurds in Western Turkey and Bakur Kurdistan. Identity, p. 1. Adamson, Fiona B ...

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 ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Russia would like to see the resumption of Kurdish oil exports, Moscow’s ambassador to Iraq said on Sunday, noting they directly benefit Russian oil companies.

Cigdem Aslan, also known as Lenna Aslan, was arrested at Istanbul Airport on suspicion of conducting activities for the PKK Kurdish separatist group. A friend of Ms Aslan's from the Kurdish ...