ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Although Kurdish has been offered as an elective course in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish provinces for the past 14 years, official figures show that the number of government ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he is pleased to see steps taken in neighbouring Syria to integrate the Kurdish-led ...

Abdul-Razzaq Ahmad Saryoul began publishing books in Syria in 2003 but he used to abstain from participating in the annual ...

A month after clashes rocked a Kurdish-majority neighbourhood in Syria's second-largest city of Aleppo, most of the tens of thousands of residents who fled the fighting between government forces and ...

For Elizabeth Bryant, a Takelma language program leader for the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, the answer lies in years of dedication, advocacy and community-driven teaching. Takelma, the ...

Kurdish is now taught formally in Sweden and Germany under a joint project with the Kurdistan Region’s Education Ministry, registering thirty schools abroad and serving three thousand online students.

A new integration agreement between Damascus and the SDF is underway in northeastern Syria, but major obstacles remain—from diverging interpretations of the deal to the deep influence of the ...

Today deportations and restricted asylum rights are changing the terms of political belonging around the world. With surreal and darkly humorous archival works, German filmmaker Cem Kaya is exploring ...

The US decision to back Damascus and tell Syria’s Kurds their partnership had “expired” has shattered Kurdish trust in ...

Their arrival in the stronghold of the Kurds' de facto autonomous administration came after government security personnel entered the mixed Kurdish-Arab city of Hasakeh and the countryside around the ...

Last month during the violent clashes between Kurdish forces and the Syrian army, the United States delivered a devastating message to Syria’s Kurds: Their partnership with Washington had “expired“.