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Syria’s Kurds confront defeat after decades of resistance - opinion

Abandoned by allies and pressured by Turkey, Syria’s Kurds were forced to surrender autonomy to Damascus.

Armed members of the Syrian Democratic Forces' (SDF) military police take part in a demonstration under the banner “With our will, we will protect our revolution.” in Qamishli, Syria, September 17, 2025.
Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) take part in a training session at a base on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq February 12, 2026.

Kurdish forces: A crucial piece in Iran’s democratic future - opinion

Fighters from the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, are pictured near the border with Iran in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, in the outskirts of Sulaimaniya, Iraq, June 21, 2025.

Kurdish militias face high-stakes gamble in potential US alliance against Tehran - interview

Members of the Kurdish community and other protesters attend a demonstration against recent military clashes between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces, in Berlin, Germany, January 24, 2026.

Rojava failed, but Kurdish pragmatism may succeed where utopia did not - opinion


Traveler in Kurdistan

Pointing a lens at one of the Middle East’s least understood groups.

Not as risky or adventurous as one might think: ‘Yehuda’ discusses his recent trip to Iraqi Kurdistan, at the Abraham Hostel

What is preventing Kurdish independence?

If Kurds find a way to be a key US ally against Iran, the situation might change radically.

Kurdish peshmerga forces on the way to Mosul

Iran: Dictatorship inside, instability outside

we believe there is a strategic convergence between the interests of nations inside Iran and the region’s main actors that can bring a new order to the Middle East.

Turkish Kurds look towards the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani from the top of a hill close to the border line between Turkey and Syria near Mursitpinar bordergate

Kurdistan’s economic woes

Salaries for the Peshmerga is not the only vital area where funds have gone dry.

Syrian Kurds from Kobani walk to the border fences as seen from the Turkish border town of Suruc

Those who face death: The kinship between Kurds and Israelis

From the security offices of Kirkuk to the front lines against Islamic State and the devastation left behind at Shingal, Peshmerga fighters remain stalwart in their battle against terrorist elements.

Hussein Yazdanpana, vice-president of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) gestures as he shows the frontline position his soldiers occupy fighting Islamic State northwest of Kirkuk

A world against ISIS

All the countries on both sides of World War II have been united by a common scourge.

Two Kurdish members of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) look through their gun sights toward Islamic State positions on the front lines northwest of Kirkuk

A look into the life of the Mount Sinjar Yazidis, one year post Islamic State siege

For the Yazidis, life has become a nightmare.

Yazidi women and children at the United Nations refugee camp at Arbat, near Sulaimani, in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq

Report: Israeli-Canadian woman who went to fight ISIS, returns to Iraq to work with charity

Rosenberg, 31, who made international news late last year when she traveled to Kurdistan denies CYCI claim that she is part of the group.

Gill Rosenberg

Report: Majority of Israeli oil imported from Kurdistan

Importing crude from Erbil could be geopolitically, economically favorable for Jerusalem, says expert.

A Kurdish oil tanker is seen off the coast of Ashkelon

An incongruence of aims

The Kurds’ Western backers in northern Iraq are wary of the Kurdish goal of independence.

An officer from the Western coalition forces gives advice to Kurdish Peshmerga forces during a training session on how to defend the front lines against ISIS in Daquq district, northern Iraq, June 15