In this series we explore the Kurdish issue - the persecution, the resistance and their attempts to form a state. We ask what does the future hold for one of the largest stateless ethnic groups in the ...

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This year’s Newroz festival in Diyarbakir drew huge crowds with one hope: to finally find a political solution to the decades-long conflict in the Kurdish region. A Newroz message from the imprisoned ...

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani stated on Wednesday that Erbil will not contribute to any form of escalation ...

French Senator Remi Feraud told Rudaw on Sunday that the relationship between France and the Kurdistan Region has flourished ...

The talks, which took place on Thursday, were part of efforts to end a 47-year insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

Abdullah Ocalan, whose PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by ... to take a historic step toward tearing down the wall of terror” between Turks and Kurds. Since then little concrete progress has ...

The demand for federal rule has gathered momentum as alarm spread through Syria's minorities over last month's mass killings ...

In-depth: The opposition has vowed to continue protests and civil disobedience, despite a massive crackdown on any form of ...

Israel and Turkey face off over influence in Syria, clashing on military moves, Kurdish ties, and the country’s political ...

Israeli officials have no faith in Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, whom Mr Katz describes as “a jihadist ...