The US is reaching out to Kurdish Iranian opposition groups as tensions rise, following airstrikes on Iran. Kurdish factions recently formed a coalition to oppose the Iranian regime.

Across global demonstrations and in thousands of videos posted online, Kurdish women and their allies have begun braiding their hair in honor of a female Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

The Women’s Assembly of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party issued a written statement condemning the approval of a death sentence for Kurdish activist and labor rights ...

PJAK emphasizes its autonomy in the fight for a democratic Iran, rejecting involvement in external conflicts, says co-chair Peyman Viyan.

SAMAQA, Iraq, Nov 3 (Reuters) - When Islamic State insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing ...

Seven women swathed in chadors, their eyes barely visible through netted apertures, stride purposefully toward seven marble headstones in a forest clearing. A lone woman in traditional Kurdish garb ...

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- She is 18, unmarried and eight months pregnant. She hates it when the baby shifts and kicks in her womb. "I don't hate the child," she said. "But the movements keep reminding me ...