Kurds

The U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State has started the process of withdrawing from Syria, its spokesman said on Friday, quoted by haaretz.com

Responding to U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton's remarks, Turkish presidential spokesman has said claims that Turkey targets Kurds are "irrational."

U.S. President Donald Trump has said the United States would get out of Syria slowly "over a period of time" and would protect the Washington-backed Kurdish group that Turkey lists as a terrorist organization, as tensions rise in the war-torn country.

The YPG is oppressing Kurdish groups which disagree with them, raiding their offices, arresting dissident political leaders, forcing young recruits into fighting, and seizing civilians' houses, according to an official of the Syrian Kurdish National Council (ENKS).

Turkey has demanded Google to remove a map of "Kurdistan," which includes its own territory, a minister said Dec. 24.

Iraq began piping oil from its fields around the disputed city of Kirkuk on Friday, more than a year after exports were halted over troubles with the autonomous Kurdish administration north of the country.

A German-Kurdish singer was sentenced on Nov. 14 to more than six years in prison in Turkey for membership of a terrorist organisation, her lawyer said.    

A bride has received a total of 3 kilograms of gold as a gift at a wedding of a Kurdish tribe in southeastern Turkey. Click through for the story in photos...

A former MP for the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey has expressed her intention to apply for asylum in Greece.

Leyla Birlik, 44, was arrested by Greek police in the northeastern border town of Orestiada on Wednesday for illegal entry to the country.

A prosecutor subsequently ordered her release until her asylum request has been examined.

Gunmen entered the governorate building in Erbil, the seat of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq on Monday and began firing from windows at Kurdish security forces, a deputy governor of the city and Kurdish security officials said.