Like other Iranian Kurds who fled into exile during last year's women-led mass protests, 17-year-old Sarina tries to keep a low profile in her new home in northern Iraq.She avoids drawing attention in her waitress job and hides her face behind a Covi...

Outlawed Kurdish militants are temporarily suspending "operations" in Turkey after the massive quake in the country and Syria, a PKK leader said."Stop operations in Turkey, in the cities. We have decided to not conduct any operation as long as the Tu...

By AFPIslamic State group militants in northern Syria launched a failed attack targeting a prison holding fellow jihadists in a clash that killed six Kurdish fighters, local authorities and a war monitor said.The Kurdish fighters were killed in the a...

By AFPBullet marks reveal the spot where a rights lawyer was shot in the head at the height of clashes in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir between Kurdish militants and security forces in 2015.Much of the Kurdish-majority city of over one...

By AFPA French man suspected of killing three people in a "racist" attack at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris has been transferred to a psychiatric unit, prosecutors said, as police and demonstrators clashed in the French capital.Prosecutors said t...

By AFPThe roof is caved in, a wall has exploded and broken glass litters the floor at a base of the exiled Kurdish-Iranian opposition in mountainous northern Iraq."These are the regime's missiles," said Karim Farkhapour, a leader of the Democratic Pa...

Rights groups voiced alarm Tuesday over the extent of an Iranian crackdown on a Kurdish-populated city that has become a hub for protests, as oil refinery workers pressed strikes in a new tactic.Iran's clerical authorities have been shaken by over th...

By AFPSecurity forces in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region fired tear gas and rubber-coated bullets Saturday to disperse anti-government protesters and briefly detained seven opposition lawmakers, an AFP journalist and an official said.The oppositio...

Kurdish-affiliated authorities said Thursday they had found the remains of almost 30 bodies in a mass grave in northern Syria, with a war monitor saying they were likely killed by jihadists."At least 29 bodies, including those of a woman and two chil...

By AFPSyria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration handed Tajikistan 146 women and children related to Islamic State group jihadists, a Kurdish official said Monday, in the first such repatriation to the ex-Soviet state.Thousands of foreign extremi...

By AFPIraqi Kurd Haresh Talib says he struggles to get paid and his children's schooling is disrupted in his conflict-riddled country, so he wants to try to flee with his family to Europe -- again."There is no future here," says the 36-year-old from...