Leaders of Iran’s sizable Kurd population are reported to be mobilizing in the aftermath of joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on the regime, but their ability to mount a successful armed resistance remains ...

As Israel and the U.S. have struck targets across Iran, Iranian forces and its allies in Iraq launched missiles and drones ...

Who are Kurds? The Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups without an independent state. Learn about their origin, history ...

Iraqi Kurdish officials have told The Associated Press that thousands of battle-hardened Kurds in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran with U.S. backing.

The Iran war has distracted and depleted the U.S. military. But it may also—at least for now—have secured Taiwan’s de facto independence from Beijing.

An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) inspects the damage sustained at the Azadi camp following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye, in ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an airstrike on his Tehran compound. He was one of the central figures of the system from the earliest days of the 1979 revolution. In the 1980s, he ...

A look at the history, identity and political struggles of the Kurdish people, the world's largest stateless ethnic group, ...

Understanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of ...

Many assumed Iran is an Arab country due to geography and religion, but the truth is rooted in a 2,500-year-old Persian ...

The name Iran comes from the Indo-Iranian roots of the people who built early Persian civilisation.

US forces have shot down hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles in recent days, raising questions about how long American air ...