A senior figure in Iran’s Kurdish opposition has tied any potential ground incursion into Iran to a major U.S. military decision: the establishment of a no-fly zone over Kurdish areas in western Iran.

The spotlight is once again on the Kurds in the Middle East. The US and Israel launched a crippling air campaign on Saturday, devastating Iran's security forces across the country, particularly in the ...

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Salih Muslim, one of the founding members and the first co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a pioneering force among the Kurds in Syria, passed away late yesterday at a hospital in Erbil ...

President Donald Trump has ruled out enlisting Kurdish militias to invade Iran, but at least some of the fighters are betting that as the war drags on, the U.S. may still come calling. Kurdish ...

Image — A member of the Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan, a Kurdish Iranian group, looks toward passing jets on 6 March 2026 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Photo by Hawre Khalid/Getty Images. More than a ...

Degala, Iraq — A rusted metal gate and a wind-torn flag mark the entrance to the Kurdistan Freedom Party’s base outside the northern Iraqi city of Erbil. An anti-aircraft gun sits on the plateau ...

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Sky News has obtained a detailed insight into the phone calls between US President Donald Trump and Iraqi Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq at the start of the war last weekend. There has been ...

The head of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group has told Newsweek his forces were prepared to launch ground operations against the Islamic Republic's security forces if and when President Donald Trump ...

Iraq's federal government has warned the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) not to allow Kurdish groups to become involved in the war on Iran, telling Kurdish authorities that Iraqi forces could move ...

Ms. Geranmayeh is the deputy head of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations. The United States may once again be poised to turn the Kurds into its foot ...