Some members of San Diego’s Kurdish community will be able to vote in an upcoming referendum that could eventually make Kurdistan a separate country from Iraq. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, who represents ...

At the Halabja School in north London, Koshar Ali sits with her infant son and calmly recalls the nightmare she lived through 15 years ago in the city now memorialized in the name of her child's ...

Born in 1984 in Boukan, East Kurdistan, Hossein Aghapouri is a PhD student of political and international studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is conducting researching on digital ...

Something unusual is happening in rural Sweden. In a plot that even Swedish writer Henning Mankell might have thought too far fetched, a small football club based in the county of Dalarna – a ...

Kurdish and Jewish diaspora civil society organizations came publicly together for the first—but certainly not the last—time in a landmark congress in Berlin on September 7, 2025. This congress—which ...

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Dec 2014), pp. 22-34 (13 pages) The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of Kurdish community organisations in preserving identity ...

Michael Rubin reviews Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurding Fight for Independence, by Aliza Marcus; and Kurdish Identity: Human Rights and Political Status, edited by Charles G. MacDonald and ...

A Kurdish–Dutch cultural festival held in Oosterhout on Dec. 21, 2025, introduced Dutch and international audiences to Kurdish music, fashion, food, and traditions, including Yalda, an ancient winter ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish lawmakers in Germany's federal parliament, representing a range of political ideologies from center-right to far-left, gathered in Berlin on Tuesday in a bid to show ...

CNN — French police on Friday fired teargas amid clashes with agitated protesters outside a Kurdish community center in central Paris, where a gunman earlier killed three people and injured four ...

Turkey on Friday announced the withdrawal of thousands of its troops from neighboring Iraq, where they had been battling Kurdish separatist rebels for more then a week. The Kurds are frequently ...