Telskuf, Iraq — The front lines in the fight against ... three elderly women who had stubbornly remained in their homes. Inside an abandoned Christian home in Telskuf, peshmerga commanders ...

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Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani has been invited to attend the opening of a Peshmerga park in Paris, ...

IRAQI Kurdish peshmerga fighters made their most determined bid yet to breach Islamic State (Isis) defences at Bashiqa yesterday in the ongoing battle to encircle and liberate Mosul. They exchanged ...

Relations have also suffered because of the United States’ close relationship with Kurdish groups—the United States continues to supply arms to Peshmerga troops fighting the Islamic State in ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters reach agreement on Friday to stop fighting in ...

Iranian security forces have arrested four female Kurdish activists in Kurdistan province following International Women’s Day celebrations on March 8. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms and disband, and their group declared a cease-fire. By Ben Hubbard and ...