As war rages in Iran, life goes on across the border in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq. In the quiet mountainous village of Sarkand, Kurdish workers produce charcoal along a river that ...

GUHARZE, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurdish villagers, displaced by fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants that has played out for years in northern Iraq, are finally allowing themselves to hope ...

Rwanga Foundation extends rural electrification effort as survivors call for long-term support A Kurdish village attacked with chemical weapons in 1987 now has a continuous electricity supply after a ...

SARKAND, Iraq (AP) — As conflict escalates in Iran, daily life persists in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq. In the serene village of Sarkand, Kurdish workers engage in charcoal production ...

As part of an ambitious project by Kurdish authorities, hundreds of towns and villages in northern Syria are shedding Arabised names adopted in the 1960s in favour of their traditional Kurdish ones.

ABU SHITEH, Iraq, April 8 -- Heyder Rajab, an emissary from Kurdish authorities, carried a letter recently to the Arab residents of Kapran, a rural hamlet near here: "Surrender," the letter said. "We ...