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The Kurds are an ethnic group indigenous to Kurdistan, a mountainous region of the Middle East than spans across Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Armenia. Although the Kurds do not ...

In October of 2007, the Kurdish Regional Government reached new deals with international companies for the exploration of oil in Iraqi Kurdistan. The four deals made by the autonomous region ...

Kurdish Separatism is a movement for a sovereign Kurdistan (or "Land of The Kurds") which would encompass parts of Eastern Turkey, Northern Iraq, Northwestern Iran, and small parts of Syria ...

Three Americans were detained in Iran for crossing the Kurdistan border into Iran "without permission" on July 31, 2009. The group of three, Sarah Shourd, Joshua Fattal and Shane Bower ...

The PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, is a paramilitary group fighting for an independent Kurdish state. Motivated by an ideology of Marxism-Leninism and Kurdish Nationalism, the PKK seeks to establish ...

A Congressional committee concluded in early July, 2008, that Hunt Oil, an oil company with close ties to President Bush, was encouraged by the State Department to sign deals with ...

In Istanbul, Turkey, a riot broke out between Kurdish protesters and police on Saturday March 22, 2008 during Newroz, a Kurdish spring festival. The Kurdish protesters reportedly threw rocks at ...

Sarah Shourd of California was one of the three Americans detained in Iran in late-July 2009. Shourd, Joshua Fattal and Shane Bower were arrested for illegally entering Iran through the ...