Syria’s government has declared a ceasefire between its security forces and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo, after at least one person was killed and four people were injured in ...

Kurdish-Druze solidarity is growing in post-Assad Syria as Sweida experiences a humanitarian crisis. The Kurdish Red Crescent sent aid to thousands of Druze families in Syria’s southern province of ...

Forces of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) raided the private Assyrian Christian schools in the cities of Hasakah and Qamishli, shutting them down by force on Monday 29 September, several ...

KOTA KINABALU: Former lawyer for Zara Qairina Mahathir’s mother, Hamid Ismail, has been appointed Judicial Commissioner along with two others. The 49-year-old senior lawyer practised for 24 years, ...

SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - A renowned Kurdish feminist writer has criticized Kurdistan Region’s media and public for fixating on so-called “model girls”—female vloggers and influencers—while ...

The Kurdish language has faced many challenges in recent history, including being banned at different times in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, with heavy restrictions often placed on Kurdish-language media ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When flames overtook the hillsides above the Zagros and Hassanabad ...

A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to a ...

STORY: Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, burned their weapons on Friday. The event signified the beginning of a disarmament process meant to end a bloody, four-decade insurgency ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK started laying down its weapons, marking the beginning of a disarmament process aimed at ending one of the Middle East’s longest-running insurgencies. A group of 30 ...

WASHINGTON, USA - AUGUST 17: (L-R) Professor Halil Berktay, Burhanettin Duran, Kilic Kanat, Shadi Hamid, and Kadir Ustun attend in a panel called "The July 15 Failed Coup Attempt: Implications for U.S ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An explosion struck the Kurdish neighborhood of Ashrafieh in Aleppo city on Monday, amid escalating tensions between Kurdish forces and Damascus-affiliated groups in the ...