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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kurdistan, Somaliland, and Kosovo have rich histories, but decades of conflict jeopardize their preservation. These unsung heroes persevere to save their cultural heritage. A snapshot of relatives ...

As the skies over northeastern Syria blackened with smoke last week, as Turkish warplanes swooped down and gunfire and shelling resumed in what had briefly been an oasis of relative peace in the ...

“Life.” That’s what Jîna Amini’s name meant in Kurdish, her native language. But after her death at the hands of Iran’s “morality police” last month, the world began to know Jîna by what she ...

As Turkey presses its offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria, many Kurds feel let down, not for the first time, by Western powers. Often described as the world's largest people without a state, ...

The Anfal genocide, one of modern history's darkest chapters, claimed 182,000 Kurdish, Assyrian, Shabak, Turkman, Yazidi, and ...

DUBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Nationwide protests over the death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of Iran's morality police have been at their most intense in the northwestern areas where ...

A common future for Kurds and Jews: A shared history and moral duty - opinion In an age when antisemitism and anti-Kurdish racism are used by states as political tools, solidarity and truth remain the ...

The Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (IKRG) Masrour Barzani has yet to meet with Pres. Biden or VP Harris, despite the clear commonalities between the US and the Kurdish people.

To assuage the outrage that followed President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria, he has made a slew of claims about the relationship between the Turks and the Kurds. Namely ...