Located about 50 miles southeast of Iraqi Kurdistan's capital, Irbil, Baghaznera is a small village in the TaqTaq district.

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and integrate into a national military force. By Christina Goldbaum A ...

After becoming a refugee she became serious about writing. We spoke to Tara Ibo about her journey as a writer and the reason she writes in Arabic and not Kurdish.

But after nearly 14 years of civil war, putting that ideal into practice will not be easy. For Syria’s Kurdish minority, America’s closest ally in the country, the struggle for a new order is ...