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From left: Turkish flag and logos of KDP and PUK. Graphic: Rudaw

Turkey can help end political deadlock in Kurdistan Region

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Liu Jun, the Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Erbil.

A decade-later handshake: Xi’s ‘Four Upholds’ charts the path forward

Kurdish people celebrate Newroz in Akre, Duhok, on March 20, 2026. Photo: Leo Correa / AP

Inventing the Kurdish enemy: how states, nationalism, and conspiracy theories turned a people into an enemy

Kurdistan flags being waved during a demonstration outside the UN Office in Erbil on October 21, 2017. Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP

The geometry of the sun: A 2026 audit of Kurdish survival

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Handout photos show a protest in Halabja province, Kurdistan Region, in May 1987 (left), a monument displaying the names of victims (center), and a portrait of Yaseen Mohammed Amin Zellmi (right). Photos: Momen Zellmi

Momen Zellmi

The watches that kept ticking

Employees of Basra Oil Company on April 29, 2026. File Photo: AFP

Mahmood Baban

Conflict targets Iran, but Iraq bears major consequences

Relatives of Anfal victims and survivors during a visit to mass graves and Nugra Salman castle, a remote prison fortress in southern Iraq, on May 17, 2025. File photo: Bilind T. Abdullah/Rudaw

Jan Ilhan Kizilhan

Anfal: The Long Shadow of a Genocide

Students hold up Kurdish language books in a class in Rojava. Photo: ANHA/file

MUTLU CIVIROGLU

Why Kurdish language rights in the new Syria require constitutional guarantees

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) in a meeting with Iraqi PM-designate Ali al-Zaidi in Baghdad on Monday, May 3, 2026. Photo: President Barzani/X

Fazel Hawramy

Nechirvan Barzani’s helping hand to Iraqi PM-designate Zaidi

A woman waves an Iranian flag in front of an anti-US billboard referring to US President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz at Valiasr Square in Tehran on May 5, 2026. Photo: AFP

Omar Ahmed

Impact of two months of war on Iranians

A Kurdish grammar book, used by Rojava institutions. Photo: SZK

Mizgin Hasan

Kurdish language in Syria: Between interim government policy and indigenous rights

From left: Dr. Jan Ilhan Kizilhan's grandfather, mother and father. Photo: submitted by the author.

Jan Ilhan Kizilhan

My father’s legacy

Laborers work on a construction site. File photo: Rudaw

Omar Ahmed

Iraq faces deepening labor strain as war impact continues: UN labor organization

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