Iran’s official language is Persian, but the many different ethnic groups also speak a variety of languages. In the predominantly-Kurdish western Iran (Rojhelat), many volunteers have opened ...

We received tips and hearty Kurdish hospitality from a former deputy ... This would turn out to be the first record of Persian leopards successfully reproducing in the wild in Iraq.

In eastern Turkey, two high school friends taught themselves how to make the daf — a shallow drum popular in Kurdish, Persian and Middle Eastern music. Their brand, Elefra Percussion, is a way to ...

Thousands gathered in Iraq’s Kurdish region on Thursday to celebrate Nowruz, the festival that heralds the arrival of spring and the start of a new year. Nowruz, deeply rooted in Persian and ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., said that it would lay down its arms and disband, a decision that could reverberate ...