The United States expanded its attacks against Iran early Friday by hitting more bridges and energy sites and collapsing a ...

A convicted people smuggler, once described as "the godfather" of the French migrant camps, is living in Leicestershire and believed to be seeking asylum while working illegally, a BBC investigation ...

The United States intensified its strikes on Iran early Thursday, hitting targets farther north and firing into a ship the ...

The latest exchange of fire, sparked by an Iranian attack on a container ship, had already cast further doubt on the interim peace deal reached last month.

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail For the seventh consecutive night, the US and Iran have exchanged attacks as the region is ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An uptick in clashes between Iranian security forces and Kurdish rebel ...

The Kurds’ fortunes have ebbed and flowed in recent years, but the fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024, the 2025 decision by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to dissolve and engage in ...

Politically, 2026 started off horribly for the Kurds when their brethren in northeast Syria saw their self-declared statelet nearly collapse, and their brethren in Iran faced the United States ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has commended the Iraqi Kurds for not getting drawn into the US-Israeli war on Iran. Speaking in Ankara on Wednesday, Erdogan praised “our brothers in the Iraqi ...

A Vienna court has convicted two former Syrian security officials, includng the former intelligence chief in Raqqa, for ...

Four heritage houses are being transformed into the Araban Cultural District, the Kurdistan Region’s first dedicated cultural district.

The Kurds are one of the world’s largest peoples without a state, making up sizable minorities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Their century-old fight for rights, autonomy, and even an independent ...