ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A number of suspected Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists were arrested in a Kurdish counter-terrorism operation carried out near the Hamrin Mountains, the Sulaimani-based ...

Nearly 470 prisoners are set to be exchanged between Syrian Kurdish forces and Damascus as part of a deal reached after high-level talks. Syrian Kurds, Damascus agree to prisoner swap following ...

In April 2024, Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Erbil, discussing ways to advance economic and trade relations, ...

Syria’s national government and Kurdish authorities in the northeast of the country have agreed to evacuate Syrian citizens from a desert camp that houses people with alleged ties to the so ...

Many Kurdish groups have joined forces to promote the Kurdish language and press Ankara for greater language rights. Turkey’s Kurds revive fight for language rights - AL-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs ...

After almost half a century, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has agreed to disband following an order given by its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan.. The founding of the party in 1978 by a ...

We warmly invite attendance to the third Kurdish Studies Conference organised by LSE and the University of Sheffield on Wednesday 11–Friday 13 June 2025. This conference will take place at the London ...

If something about Google Maps on Android and iOS looks different to you, it’s because the logo that appears in the bottom-left corner of every single map has been updated. Previously, the four ...

Apple wants you to look good and retro for WWDC 2025 and has limited-edition hoodies, T-shirts and baby onesies with the company's original rainbow logo on it.

Tensions have escalated between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country's north in a long-running dispute over the the sharing of oil revenues.

However, Mohtadi envisions more comprehensive measures that would grant Kurds greater self-rule within Iran, similar to Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Administration of North ...

BEIRUT - The commander of Kurdish forces that control northeast Syria said on Friday that his group is in direct contact with Turkey and that he would be open to improving ties, including by ...