The Iraqi Kurds (Kurdish: Kurdanî Êraq \ کوردانی عێراق, Arabic: أكراد العراق) are the second largest ethnic group of Iraq. They traditionally speak Kurdish...

provision, leaving Kurds with minority status in all of the new countries of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. Recent history of the Kurds includes numerous genocides...

Mohamed, Besheer. "Who are the Iraqi Kurds?". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2023-05-05. Aziz, Mahir (2011). The Kurds of Iraq. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-546-5...

Kurdistan is "Land of Kurds". The name was also formerly spelled Curdistan. One of the ancient names of Kurdistan is Corduene. Iraqi Kurdistan is largely...

Ba'athist Iraq from February to September 1988 during the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict at the end of the Iran–Iraq War. The campaign targeted rural Kurds because...

are recognized as ethnic Kurds in the Iraqi constitution. In January 2019, Feyli Kurds received a reserved minority seat in Wasit Governorate, which was...

are the largest ethnic group in Iraq, followed by Iraqi Kurds, then Iraqi Turkmen as the third largest ethnic group in the country. Studies indicate...

 'land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent...

of Kurds farther north. Kurds constitute approximately 17% of Iraq's population. They are the majority in at least three provinces in northern Iraq which...

Mahabad from Iran in 1946, Kurdish leaders in Iran from Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) with support from Kurds in Iraq, had prepared the...

Kurds in the United States refers to people born in or residing in the United States of Kurdish origin or those considered to be ethnic Kurds. The majority...

As various battles between separatist Kurds and Iraqi government forces continued until the 1991 uprisings in Iraq, the safety of Kurdish refugees led to...

Christians. Most present-day Iraqi Christians are ethnically, linguistically, historically and genetically distinct from Kurds, Arabs, Iranians, Turks and...

the 20th century, Iraqi Kurds oscillated between fighting for autonomy and for full independence. Under the Ba'athist regime, the Kurds experienced Arabization...

Kurdistan from Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Early Kurdish nationalism had its roots in the Ottoman Empire, within which Kurds were a significant ethnic...

effective exile of the Feyli Kurds from their ancestral lands in Iraq. The persecution began when a large number of Feyli Kurds were exposed to a big campaign...

warfare by the Iraqi army against the Kurds was the attack on the town of Halabja on March 16, 1988. Over 4,000 Kurds were killed in this one attack...

The Iraqi–Kurdish conflict consists of a series of wars, rebellions and disputes by the Kurds against the central authority of Iraq starting in the 20th...

existence of Kurds. The words "Kurds" or "Kurdistan" were banned in any language by the Turkish government, though "Kurdish" was allowed in census reports...

rapidly between the Kurds and Iraqi Turkmen. On 14 July 1959, skirmishes broke out between the Iraqi Turkmen and Kurds, leaving some 20 Iraqi Turkmen dead....

air-strikes and efforts from Iraqi, Syrian and Turkish Kurds enabled the evacuation of 35,000 to 45,000 of the 50,000 Yazidis stranded in the Sinjar Mountains...

Halabja: Lessons of a tragedy, interview with Joost Hiltermann, Kurd Net, 15 March 2008 Iraqi Kurds mourn Halabja attack victims, AFP, 16 March 2008...

protesters storm Iraq parliament". BBC News Online. 30 April 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016. "Seat in Parliament reserved for Feyli Kurds in Iraq". Al Shahid...

but as a fugitive from Iraqi authorities he relied upon the goodwill of the Iranian Kurds and their Soviet backers, and local Kurds were ordered by the authority...

"18. Iraq/Kurds (1932-present)". Tripp, Charles (2007). A History of Iraq. Cambridge University Press. pp. xii. ISBN 9780521702478. "17. Iraq/Kurds (1932-present)"...

In 1978 and 1979 alone, 600 Kurdish villages were burned down and around 200,000 Kurds were deported to other parts of Iraq. As a part of the Iraqi–Kurdish...

February 2018. ""Faylee Kurds." Minority Rights Group International. 2015". ""The Political Significance of the Faylee Kurds in Iraq." Middle East Institute"...

between Iraq and the Kurds, the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict escalated shortly afterwards due to the resumption of Arabization campaigns against the Kurds. While...

Iranian Kurdistan. They are referred to as the Kurds of Khorasan and speak the Kurmanji dialect unlike Kurds in western Iran. From the 10th century to 12th...

thousands. The oppression of Kurds in the 1980s under the then newly formed Islamic republic of Iran and the then following Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) kickstarted...