Faced with right-wing attacks amid a growing national profile, Japan’s Kurds could benefit from simple, pragmatic ...

The Islamic Republic has a history of targeting minority ethnic groups, especially the Kurds, when it feels threatened.

Iranian Kurdish dissidents have been watching from abroad for signs that the government in Tehran might falter after the ...

What Iranians need now is a government that invests in their welfare, respects human rights, and allows free expression, a ...

Iran is predominantly Shia Muslim, making up about 90 percent of the population, while Sunni Muslims and other Muslim sects ...

Just as Reza Mirpanj, known as Reza Shah, adopted Turkey’s model of ethnic chauvinism in the 1930s to suppress Kurdish identity, modern-day Iran may follow suit, further complicating the region ...

Now, in the wake of President Bashar al-Assad’s fall, Syria’s ethnic Kurds have once again found themselves distinctly vulnerable to attacks by Turkish and Turkish-backed forces.

After Assad, can the Kurds survive in Syria? The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has revealed a cruel reality – that the Syria marked on maps is a phantom, says Mark Almond ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish-backed, multi-ethnic Self-Administration of North and East Syria announced on Thursday, in a response to recent comments by the Russian government, that the ...

Michael Rubin examines the challenges facing the Kurds and US policymakers in a new volume titled, “ Kurdistan Rising? Considerations for Kurds, Their Neighbors, and the Region.” 1.

However, the status of ethnic Azerbaijanis in Iran is different from that of Kurds in either country. Azerbaijani-Turks have been one of the pillars of the Iranian administration for centuries; and in ...