The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Memory, security, and a shifting Middle East reshape the meaning of Kurdish-Jewish solidarity as Rojava faces existential ...

In Istanbul, I asked Turkish President Abdullah Gul why the Turkish state has been unable, over the course of its nearly 90-year history, to find peace with its Kurdish citizens, and what chance there ...

American support for Syria’s subjugation of “Rojava”—the autonomous Kurdish-led administration in its northeast—is regarded ...

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, ...

Kurdish forces took control of north east Syria after dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a sectarian civil war to put down a popular revolution in 2011. The area was known as the Democratic Autonomous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syrian Kurds demonstrate to demand their rights in the Syrian constitution and in support of Kurdish unity, in Qamishli, Syria ...

A critique of the Left’s unconditional solidarity with ruling Kurdish parties, and a call for class-based solidarity that sides with workers and the alternative project: the democratic citizenship ...

A Kurdish-majority neighborhood in Syria recovers from clashes with hope for the future - A month after violent clashes in a Kurdish-majority neighborhood in Syria's Aleppo, tens of thousands of resid ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - German journalist Tobias Huch, author of a bestselling book on the Kurds, has sharply criticized US ...

In the breathtakingly rugged Turkish province of Hakkari, pristine rivers surge through spectacular mountain gorges and partridges feed beneath tall clusters of white hollyhock. I’m attending the ...