A look at the history, identity and political struggles of the Kurdish people, the world's largest stateless ethnic group, amid rising US-Iran tensions.

CNN International drew the ire of Türkiye for broadcasting a 'misleading” map that misrepresents regions inhabited by Kurds, ...

Spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, the ethnic group of 40 million has long sought, and fought for, greater autonomy.

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.

America might be wary of putting its boots on the ground in Iran, but the Kurdish forces they have supported in northern Iraq ...

Colonial powers perfected this game. The French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon encouraged Kurdish refugees from Turkey to settle in northeastern Syria—not out of altruism, but as a tool to counter Arab ...

Yet the second prospect still scares many. A "United Kurdistan" map that is widely circulated on the web which is said to be hanging also on the walls of KDP's central office, is referred to as a ...

Rather than becoming tinder in the strategies of major powers, Kurds deserve the chance to stand as independent actors shaping their own future. Bringing the war to a swift end would also serve ...