As tensions rise with Iran, Kurds face a familiar dilemma: seize opportunity or risk repeating a long history of abandonment by global powers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GENERAL HUSSEIN Yazdanpanah of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) in front of PAK troops. (photo credit: Courtesy PAK) The Office ...

Interview with Kurdish filmmaker Sevînaz Evdikê about the situation of women in Rojava and the Islamist regime in Damascus. Sevînaz Evdikê (born 1992 in Serêkaniyê, Rojava) studied film in Northern ...

Beyond what many see as a recent betrayal, the reality for Kurds in the Islamic regime will likely only worsen if the US and Israel fail to secure regime change.

There is a burning desire among the Kurdish people to unite with the West and Israel to topple the regime in Tehran, yet ...

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Syrian army soldiers recover a drone used to monitor positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces on the front line in the village of Al-Malkieh, Syria, January 16, 2026. PHILÉMON BARBIER/HORS FORMAT FOR ...

BRUSSELS – Claims that Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar applied “serious diplomatic pressure” in Washington to stop the attacks on Rojava were confirmed first-hand in Brussels. Speaking at a ...

At a time when we are trying to heal the deep wounds and bleeding relationship between Turks and Kurds left from the 20th century, stop reopening those wounds and deepening the pain. There was a ...

American support for Syria’s subjugation of “Rojava”—the autonomous Kurdish-led administration in its northeast—is regarded by many of its supporters as a betrayal. “Rojava” is the name that many ...

Iraq’s First Lady, Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed, wife of President Abdul Latif Rashid, delivered a forceful statement asking world forces to avoid using Kurdish populations as proxy in […] ...