While widely celebrated, the holiday holds particular cultural and political significance for Kurds throughout the Middle ...

The Newroz holiday comes at a critical time, as Kurds in Turkey push for peace while their brethren in Syria and Iran fear further conflict.

Abdul Rahman Omar fled his village in the Afrin district in northern Syria eight years ago as a Turkish offensive against Kurdish fighters swept across the area. Now he is among hundreds of Kurds who ...

Washington may see the Kurds as a useful tool for confronting the Iranian regime, but such a strategy could create new ...

Thousands of people in Turkey's Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir province gathered on Saturday (March 21) to celebrate Nowruz, the ...

In the Kurdish regions of the Middle East, Nowruz celebrations — honoring the arrival of spring — are a fundamental ...

Kurdish holiday Newroz, which marks the new year, has taken on political and cultural significance as Nashville Kurds ...

The Kurdish people are an ethnic minority group in the Middle East without an independent state.

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurdish-led fighters in Syria, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, said Tuesday they have launched a counter-offensive against the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army to take back ...

JERUSALEM — Just hours after meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and discussing the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, Turkey's foreign minister sent a shocking message to Washington ...

Syria's Kurds battled to hold off a Turkish invasion on Thursday after air strikes and shelling launched a long-threatened operation that could reshape the country and trigger a humanitarian crisis.

Istanbul — In a historic move, imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday on members of the banned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons to end a ...