The silhouette of a hand indicates a “Victory” sign behind a Kurdish flag in Kobane, Syria, in February 2015. (Photo by Antonio Pampliega / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images) Turkish armed forces ...

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At a time when we are trying to heal the deep wounds and bleeding relationship between Turks and Kurds left from the 20th century, stop reopening those wounds and deepening the pain. There was a ...

Syria’s interim parliament, sworn in earlier this week after President Ahmed al-Sharaa appointed its last 70 members, contains no representatives from the organization that led Kurdish efforts in ...

The resilience of the Kurdish people who fight for their survival and autonomy serves as a testament to the enduring battle against colonialism, fundamentalism, and authoritarianism in this region and ...

In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led region of northeastern Syria. “We need to stand with the Kurds, and ...

In 2012 the PYD, a Kurdish political party connected to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) based in Turkey, took advantage of the spiralling chaos of the Syrian civil war to eject regime forces from ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - President Masoud Barzani on Thursday met with Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto in Rome, telling reporters, including Rudaw’s Alla Shally, that the talks focused on the ...

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