A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

The bill is backed by right-wing senators and will be debated in the upper house of the French parliament. Its aim is to ban ...

Six Kurdish groups released a joint statement urging people to stage a strike on Wednesday to prevent the executions of Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi. Click here for the full story in Kurdish ...

The Iraqi parliament controversially passed three laws as a package on Tuesday: the amended personal status law, a general amnesty law, and the repeal of Ba'athist decisions on Kurdish land in ...

Jail in NE Syria holds some 4,500 detainees, many foreigners Kurdish force: IS tried to attack jails twice since Assad fell Kurdish officer says sharing control of jail 'not acceptable' HASAKAH ...

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. “Iranian authorities are using the death ...

ANKARA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Turkey on Saturday removed another elected pro-Kurdish provincial mayor over convictions on terrorism-related charges and appointed a state official in his place ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian Kurdish opposition groups called for a general strike in the western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) on Wednesday to condemn the Islamic republic's death sentences for ...

Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the national army but stood ready to use force should negotiations fail.

Syria's new administration does not seek bloodshed with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the country's Kurdish population, de facto Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday.

The area is home to many ethnic and religious groups. The Kurdish community is large but is a minority in the region. The Kurds took lands, homes, businesses, and farms by force, while ethnically ...