For more than 27 centuries, Jews lived in the region around Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-independent Kurdish Regional Government. Once home to a Jewish community numbering in the tens of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Genuine peace is only possible through a confrontation in which truth, not bombs, speaks; where justice, not silence, ...

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Saturday congratulated the Kakayi (Yarsan) community on the occasion of the ...

Iencountered patriarchy and male dominance presiding over women and life, all in conjunction with the occupation of my homeland. We all knew that the state was the root cause,” says Peyman Viyan, the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Mayor John Cooper has signed a proclamation declaring March as Kurdish History Month — a designation that members of the Kurdish community say sends an important message. "We ...

The Kurds, an ethnic minority with a distinct culture and language, have long fought for their own homeland — Shwan MOHAMMED Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call to disarm sparked ...

Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Iraqi Kurdistan Thursday on a visit hailed by the regional president as the first by an Iranian president to the autonomous region. Pezeshkian's visit to Iraq is his first ...

Teacher Zak Amin checks the work of student Rayan Salih during a Kurdish language and culture class at Moorhead High School.