Syrian Kurds ran their own region for 12 years after breaking away from Assad control. Now they are forced to give up autonomy. NPR visited the changing region.

In a packed hall in Qamishli's sports stadium in northeast Syria, Firas Ahmad is one of dozens of Kurds waiting to apply for ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards deterred the Kurds from rising up through a combination of military strikes in neighbouring Iraq ...

Syria’s Kurds are registering for citizenship, two years after the fall of the Baathist regime, which deprived them of their ...

Iranian Kurdish parties say they did not receive U.S. weapons after Trump claimed guns sent to protesters were kept by ...

President Trump addressed several major developments around negotiations with Tehran.

Kurdish residents of northeast ​Syria warned Iran's Kurds against aligning with the U.S. to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent ‌months as evidence their ...

The next day Bafel went on the defensive, working to pull the wider Kurdish community back from the brink of war. He appeared on Fox News – a move clearly aimed at Trump’s base – downplaying the idea.

Iranian Kurdish families living in a camp in Iraq hold on to one hope: that the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran weakens Iran’s ...

Trump admits US sent weapons into Iran weeks before the war began in a bid to cause chaos, but says 'the Kurds kept them' ...

For centuries, Kurds were a vital element of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires. These two great Islamic, multiethnic states achieved stable bilateral relations in the 17th century following ...