Thousands of people celebrated the Kurdish Nowruz spring festival on Thursday in Dohuk in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq. (AP video/Rashid Yahya) ...

Seven professors at Iran's Kermanshah University have been fired after a video of them performing a Kurdish folk dance at a graduation ceremony went viral, angering university officials. The video ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, April 9 -- Iraq's Kurds saw the television images from Baghdad and raced into the streets. By midafternoon, thousands of cheering, dancing Kurds had clogged the downtowns of Irbil ...

Kurdish fighters in Syria claimed Tuesday to have lifted the Islamic State’s four-month siege of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani and said the last Islamic State attackers were on the run. “The ...