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Kurdish IDPs Attacked on Return to Sari Kani as Turkish-Backed Factions Strike Convoys

Seven years of exile appeared to be ending on Monday. It ended instead in violence. The return of displaced Rojava Kurds to their northeastern hometown...

Leyla Zana: The Woman Who Spoke Kurdish in the House That Forbade It

There are acts of political courage that require armies and weapons. And there are acts that require nothing more than a voice and the...

The second displacement of Kirkuk’s Kurds

In most cities, a dispute over state-owned land would be an administrative nuisance. In Kirkuk, it becomes a reckoning with ethnic cleansing, oil and...

Mama Risha: The Bearded Uncle Who Never Surrendered

There are names in Kurdish history that transcend biography. Names that become symbols, rallying points, expressions of collective identity that mean something far beyond...

Lindsey Graham, A Steadfast Ally of the Kurds, dies at 71 from Sudden Illness

United States Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died on the evening of Saturday, 11th July, 2026, following a brief and sudden illness. He...

Rojhelat and the False Promise of Iranian Unity

Iran’s Kurds are caught between a regime that treats Kurdish politics as a security threat and an opposition that often treats Kurdish self-determination as...