A racy new music video by Kurdish pop singer Helly Luv has gone viral, but also angered some in conservative Kurdistan
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Syria’s Many Battlefields: Islamist Rebels Wage War Against the Kurds
Last Wednesday, when jihadi fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) captured Azaz, a Syrian town barely four miles from the Turkish border, alarm bells sounded in Ankara, Brussels and Washington. An al-Qaeda …
New Day for the Kurds: Will Ocalan’s Declaration Bring Peace With Turkey?
The imprisoned Kurdish leader asks his fighters to withdraw from Turkish territory. Will this be the end of the decades-long, bloody struggle?
Destination Kurdistan: Is This Autonomous Iraqi Region a Budding Tourist Hot Spot?
Kurdistan in northern Iraq — an autonomous region that retains a considerable amount of political freedom from Baghdad — is by far the safest and most accessible area of Iraq to visit
Syrian Kurds Find Refuge in an Erstwhile Homeland
Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have fled their country’s brutal and increasingly sectarian civil war for refuge across the border in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The conditions at the Domiz camp may be squalid, …
Fleeing Civil War, Syria’s Kurds Enter Another Geopolitical Minefield
Samira Selo cradled her 2-year-old on her hip and looked across the low valley toward Syria, a country that until a month ago she called home. Some sheep and goats grazed nearby. Behind her, in the old tiny tent she, her husband
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