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

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic importance of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

Iraqi forensic officials uncovered the remains of 17 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters - killed during the country’s battles against ...

where Kurds have their own regional government. Some Syrian officials and diplomats say the SDF will likely need to relinquish control of significant territory and oil revenues, gained during the ...

Both leaders emphasized the importance of establishing a unified Kurdish front in Syria, the statement added. Abdi, whose SDF controls nearly one-third of Syria’s territory, said his discussions ...

The Kurds lost control of the area to the federal government in 2017, after briefly holding it from 2014. "The area that Baghdad is talking to BP about is a disputed territory. According to the ...

Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration aims to empty camps in the northeast of thousands of displaced Syrians and ...

In 2005, the new Iraqi constitution granted the Kurdish territory in Northern Iraq federal status, marking a historic moment in Kurdish self-determination. Then the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) ...