Kurds

Iran launches attack on Kurdistan region of Iraq in latest strike on Kurdish groups

Iran has targeted the region with more than 1,000 drone and missile attacks since February. It has sought to strike at Kurdish dissident groups as well as US diplomatic facilities and other sites.

President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian holds up a poster of assassinated Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei while addressing the 81st session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly at UN Headquarters on September 23, 2026 in New York City.
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters detonate a land mine laid by the Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the Iraqi town of Bashiqa, some 25 kilometres north east of Mosul, on November 13, 2016 after they retook control of the town from IS jihadists.

Turkey’s Bashiqa base handover marks a new chapter for post-ISIS Iraq - analysis

Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters gather during a security deployment in Luhaiban village in Kirkuk Monday, 6th December 2021

Kurdish Peshmerga completes its long process of unification - explainer

The UNRWA Kalandia Training Centre as Israeli forces began demolishing the United Nations facility in Kalandia, north of Jerusalem, August 25, 2026.

From Washington to Gaza: Arms sales, UNRWA, and regional conflict


Iran-linked drone attacks target Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq

A Kurdish Iranian opposition group said Iran targeted its headquarters in northern Iraq, the latest in a series of attacks on anti-Tehran factions.

Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party, known as PAK take part in a training session at a base on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq February 12, 2026.

The end of the SDF: What the dissolution means for the Kurds and Sharaa's state - opinion

Following an agreement with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the SDF's mission ended and was being dissolved "as an independent military force" and being integrated into the Syrian army.

 Soldiers from the Syrian Democratic Forces stand in front of the detainees before the first exchange operation between the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Syrian government in Aleppo, Syria, April 3, 2025.

Prisoners protest in Syria's Kobani after Kurdish soldier's murder test al-Sharaa's - analysis

This is the latest in Syria's tensions, while it also reveals the concerns many Kurds have about how the new government resolves crises.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa listens to French President during a joint press conference after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on May 7, 2025.

Kurdish expert: Israel knows how to recognize a nation. It should recognize ours - opinion

Kurds are the largest unrecognized nation on earth. Not unrepresented, which is a lesser condition. There is no seat, no flag at Turtle Bay, no ministry anywhere that receives our envoys as envoys.

Nechirvan Barzani, the regional president of Iraqi Kurdistan, delivers a speech after casting his ballot in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi's northern autonomous Kurdish region, on November 11, 2025.

Kurdish group kills Sunni ‘traitor’ working with IRGC, source tells ‘Post’

The alleged IRGC collaborator, Mala Mohammadi Mala Qaderi, was killed by two motorcyclists after they attacked the entrance to Qaderi’s home.

IRGC forces open fire on Iranian protestors.

Seven years after being displaced, Kurdish families return to Serekaniye - analysis

In 2019, the US briefly considered leaving Syria. It evacuated some posts in the area, not wanting to be in the middle of fighting. It took time for the area to stabilize.

Members of the all women Martyr Ayaz Çiya battalion staff checkpoints and stop vehicles in the Halko neighbourhood on February 8, 2026 in Qamishli, Syria.

International Jewish-Kurdish conference kicks off in London

Jewish and Kurdish leaders gathered in London for a two day conference aimed at turning 2,700 years of shared history into stronger political, cultural, academic, and diaspora cooperation.

Jewish–Kurdish Relations in a Changing Middle East: History, Identity and Future Cooperation, London, UK

A new generation has risen, one that ‘does not know Joseph’ - opinion

Twenty-five years after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Western youngsters, ignorant of the jihadist assault, have forgotten how dangerous Islamic extremism can be

Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags and chant against Israel’s and America’s war with Iran in front of the Israeli embassy in Portugal in May.

Iran attacks Kurdish Iranian opposition group in Iraq - analysis

The attack comes amid numerous reports in Kurdish media that the US is withdrawing from Iraq, including forces in the Kurdistan Region. This includes reports of air defenses being withdrawn.

Damaged buildings after, what the security sources say, a drone struck an arms depot in an attack on the headquarters of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in which two fighters were wounded, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in the town of Dekala in Iraq's Kurdistan region March 4, 2026.

PKK warns disarmament process at risk unless Turkey links surrender to political reforms

Bayik said the National Solidarity and Social Integration Law does not clearly connect the surrender of weapons with a transition to democratic politics.

Fighters with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) line up to put their weapons into a pit during a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.