He learned Kurdish and married a Kurd. In 2003 at a Kurdish investment seminar in Irbil, Schute met Douglas Layton, an American who came to Kurdistan in 1992. Layton, whose round spectacles and woolen ...

Director Bilal Shakir completes "Shamaran," a film on war trauma, targeting festivals first. The title evokes the Kurdish ...

An explosion occurred in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq on Sunday evening, the third day of the Israel-Iran war. Residents said the explosion was caused by a drone and ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A group of 30 Kurdish fighters clad in camouflage fatigues burned their weapons in a large cauldron in ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The main drag in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city, is – in a word – alive. Vendors slice open bright pink watermelons. An elderly man stirs a pot of sherbet, a sweet, ...

Playing tourists in one of the world’s most dangerous cities is not how we imagined we’d end up spending Tuesday, but there we were atop Kirkuk’s ancient citadel admiring – and mourning – the ...

FILE - Lawmaker of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party Sirri Sureyya Onder speaks to the media after talks with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. (AP ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — From abroad, Iranian Kurdish dissident groups have been watching closely for signs that Iran’s theocracy could falter in its grip on the country, battered by Israeli airstrikes in ...

Syria’s opposition needs to be more representative and inclusive, say U.S. officials mindful of the dangers of an increasingly sectarian civil war. But the scale of the challenge in creating an ...

Brianna Aguilera (left), The legal team that will tackle two felony indictments against Texas Governor Rick Perry, headed by Houston attorney Tony Buzbee (right), meets the press at the Stephen F.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The militant Kurdistan ...