Your bonnet is lying to you—it’s not really silk. “Many brands are using satin mixes,” founder of Lina Lennox Angela Muth tells ESSENCE. “They call it silk as a marketing term, but when it truly comes ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to journalist Wladimir van Wilgenburg about the role Kurds may play in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Leave the Kurds alone, we are not guns for hire. Those were the ...

President Trump on Saturday said that he had “ruled out” encouraging Kurdish militia to take on the Iranian government. “They’re willing to go in, but we really—I’ve told them I don’t want them to go ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent media reports suggesting the U.S. and Israel are considering support for Kurdish militant groups operating along Iran’s ...

FOR MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS, when American presidents have wanted to put pressure on leader in Iraq or Iran, the same idea has consistently popped up: Use the Kurds. Now, as the Trump administration ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Thousands of battle-hardened Kurds in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran with U.S. backing, Kurdish officials told The Associated Press ...

Five Kurdish Iranian groups agreed to form a joint coalition against the Iranian regime on February 22. These groups span a diverse spectrum of political ideologies, from the Right to the Left. Most ...

The C.I.A. has given small weapons to Iranian Kurdish forces in Iraq in a covert program that began before the current war. By Erika Solomon Julian E. Barnes Christiaan Triebert Parin Behrooz and ...

Spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, the ethnic group of 40 million has long sought, and fought for, greater autonomy. By Raja Abdulrahim Iranian Kurdish forces, based in Iraq, are preparing ...

The Kurdish people are an ethnic minority group in the Middle East without an independent state. Estimates of the population range between 25 million and 45 million worldwide, with most living in the ...