Statements by the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, an umbrella organisation of Kurdish left organisations, and the ...

Iraq’s judiciary is nominally independent. In practice, civil society watchdogs and former officials say it answers to ...

Komala leader Abdulla Mohtadi told Newsweek that "the regime might collapse under pressure" if the U.S. lends its support.

Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country’s ...

Both announcements mark a big shift in Kurdish strategy. Kurds hope that relinquishing their arms will help them negotiate for safety and political freedoms. Not everyone agrees with the new approach.

The public comments represented a significant diplomatic overture by Mazloum Abdi, whose Syrian Democratic Forces fought Turkish troops and Ankara-backed Syrian rebels during Syria's 14-year civil war ...

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A new United Nations report says that Iran carried out executions at “an alarming rate” last year with at least 975 people ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria ... a sprawling camp in the desert that houses tens of thousands of people with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group.

For more than four decades, the Kurdish militant group known as the PKK waged an insurgency against the Turkish state that left some 40,000 people dead and reshaped the lives of millions.