Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the ...

Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his pioneering speech in late February. In his ...

Andalibi is a widely respected nay (reed flute) player and an in-demand side player virtuoso for top traditional Persian ...

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the ...

Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates ...

Survivor of tragic Channel crossing recounts harrowing ordeal, says migrants were 'treated like animals' and left without ...

American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump ...

A 22-year-old Kurdish man who resides in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, lives anxiously. An estimated 3,000 Kurds from Turkey and other Middle East countries live in Kawaguchi and Warabi ...

Reports of a wave of killings in Syria’s coastal region have sparked an international outcry, including a rebuke from the United States, and further inflamed sectarian tensions in what has become the ...