Southeast Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at ...

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

NPR's Leil Fadel asks Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, whether Kurds in the semi-autonomous northwest region have a voice in the new government.

Yazidi shrine of Melek Tawûs, the Peacock Angel. Yazidis live primarily in the towns of Sinjar and Shekhan in Kurdistan, and while estimates vary, they number about 500,000 people worldwide.

She said the cultural center will be able to teach as many as 20 students at a time with the goal of having the young Yazidis become proficient in both reading and writing the Kurdish dialect.

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