E arlier this month, high in the snow-capped mountains near the border between Iran and Iraq, a Kurdish rebel led me down a ...

BEIRUT(AP) — Over the past decade, the religiously and ethnically mixed Syrian Democratic Forces had been the most effective force in the battle against the Islamic State group in Syria. The ...

Kurdish groups in Iran and Iraq have faced incredible hardships. They have persevered. Now they sense that their moment has arrived.

For decades, the rugged frontier dividing the Zagros Mountains between Iran and Iraq has been the refuge of these exiled Iranian militants, who have set up camps in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan ...

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

As a veteran Syrian Kurdish fighter, Commander Azad – whose nom-de-guerre means freedom - walks with a limp and wears his battle scars with pride. "My leg was injured when we were bombed by a Turkish ...

The Trump administration may have planned a rapid fall of the Iranian regime after the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a quick victory that would force Iran to agree to its terms.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iran has launched operations targeting Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in neighbouring Iraq ...

Photographer Valentina Sinis was given rare access to an all-female Kurdish battalion living and training inside hidden ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran, and the U.S. has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them, ...