In the heart of Iran’s mountainous west, Kurdish weddings are among the most colorful and lively cultural celebrations in the country.

Seven professors at Iran's Kermanshah University have been fired after a video of them performing a Kurdish folk dance at a graduation ceremony went viral, angering university officials. The video ...

A news video originally broadcast by TV Asahi Corp. about Kurds living in Japan was heavily edited and uploaded on social ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The main drag in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city, is – in a word – alive. Vendors slice open bright pink watermelons. An elderly man stirs a pot of sherbet, a sweet, ...

It is no secret that Ms. Cheap loves a good free festival. And an interesting one that seems to keep getting better year after year is the Celebrate Nashville Cultural Festival, a full day dedicated ...

The Kurdish group PKK announced on Monday that it will fully disarm and disband, ending its decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state, according to the Firat News Agency, an outlet linked ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq will resume exporting oil from the country's northern, semiautonomous Kurdish region through Turkey’s Ceyhan port after exports had been halted for more than two years, officials ...

A cautious calm spread Tuesday in neighborhoods of Aleppo in northern Syria after overnight clashes between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters. The violence came as tensions grow between the ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A theatrical performance by a renowned Kurdish dance group from northeastern ...

A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq as part of a peace effort with Turkey. The statement issued in northern ...

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