Its origins are an archaeological riddle worthy of Indiana Jones, but it’s also a beacon of an oil-rich future. Welcome to the at least 7,000-year-old Arbil citadel in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region ...

Kurdish tribes have lived in Anatolia since at least 1,000 B.C., twenty centuries before the first Turks arrived there. Ancient historians described them as a people not to be trifled with. Xenophon, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — In Nashville’s “Little Kurdistan,” ancient tradition is honored and celebrated. Nashville is home to the largest population of Kurdish people in the United States, according ...

Earlier this year, unknown people graffitied a Kurdish flag and other slogans on the 2300 year old ancient Assyrian ruin in Nohadra, in the extreme north of Iraq (AINA 2016-02-23). A team consisting ...

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Towering above the modern streets and buildings of Irbil, the citadel's narrow alleyways and dusty courtyards stand almost deserted. Its mud-brick houses, built atop layers of ancient civilizations ...

Syrian Kurds in the northeast city of Qamishli on Friday performed an ancient rain ritual that has gained new relevance as they struggle with record low rainfall.