By Tim Arango in The New York Times, DEC. 2, 2014 BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government agreed Tuesday to a long-term accord with the autonomous Kurdish region to share the country’s oil wealth and military resources in a far-reaching deal that helps reunite the country in...
Since the moment when the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was formally established on 27 November 1978 there have been enormous transformations in both the organisation itself and in the political struggle of the Kurdish people. The current situation where the Kurdish...
High in the Kandil Mountains separating Iraq from Iran, a German physician has become a beacon of hope for ailing Kurds across the region. On a sunny autumn...
While the Iranian regime first encouraged Kurdish people to stage protest in support of Kobanê, it now started to arrest human rights activists active in those protests. Recently two more...
The Kobane resistance is in its 56th day. ISIS is aware that it has been broken in Kobane. The psychological impact of this loss is clearly visible on the attacking groups. This reality is most visible on the frontline and from ISIS’s internal walkie-talkie...
Thousands of protesters from across the globe – including Turkey, France, Italy, Germany, the UK, and Australia – marched to show solidarity with Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in the strategic city of Kobani, located on Syria’s border with Turkey. Hundreds...
