Iraqi forces move deeper into Kurdish-held areas, redrawing political map October 17, 2017 More than 7 years ago This Aug. 17, 2015, photo shows a general view of the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar ...

The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the ...

A Syrian army advance against Islamic State in northern Syria has opened a new link between government-held areas in western Syria and the Kurdish-dominated northeast, redrawing the map of the ...

While the PKK has announced its dissolution and intention to stop fighting, clashes continue in Iraqi Kurdistan between ...

In Syria, near the start of the civil war, around 2012, the forces of now-deposed dictator Assad, withdrew from Kurdish-majority areas in northeastern and eastern Syria without much of a fight.

About 30 million Kurds are spread over an area nearly the size of France that spans the Middle East and the Caucasus. International boundaries drawn after World War I left most Kurds split between ...

CIA map of the Middle East and Kurdish areas. Iraq was one of five Arab countries that participated in the war against the newly created Jewish state in 1948. The war ended in 1949 with the United ...

Figure 2 Map showing the oil and gas fields of the Zagros fold belt in Iran and Iraq. The Kurdistan area lies to the east of the supergiant Kirkuk field. Map from Greg Croft.

After the Syrian revolution began in 2011, the Kurdish people formed their own semi-autonomous area in Syria called Rojava. Their alliance with the U.S. has kept Syrian and Turkish forces out of ...

For Fleeing Iraqis, Kurdish Areas Are The Safe Zone : Parallels An estimated 500,000 people have fled Mosul after the Islamist group ISIS took control of the city. Humanitarian workers say the ...