The Newroz holiday comes at a critical time, as Kurds in Turkey push for peace while their brethren in Syria and Iran fear further conflict.

In the Kurdish regions of the Middle East, Nowruz celebrations — honoring the arrival of spring — are a fundamental ...

Kurds are returning to Syria’s Afrin district and celebrating the Nowruz spring festival openly for the first time in years.

Kevin, wife Kyra Sedgwick, and their kids Sosie and Travis — talk at SXSW about making a family horror comedy together.

In Iraq's northern Kurdistan region, women perform a traditional dance, their long dresses spinning, gold tassels and heavy necklaces catching the firelight, as smaller crowds than usual celebrate ...

Iranian Kurdish families living in a camp in Iraq hold on to one hope: that the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran weakens Iran’s theocracy.

Iranian filmmakers turned censorship into one of cinema’s most vital movements. War threatens to destroy what decades of repression couldn’t.

Iranian Americans are marking Nowruz this year with a mix of somber celebrations and the traditional flowers, music and ...

For decades, Persian-language movies have showcased Iranian culture and people. Today, the country’s great directors are ...

"We could remove the Iranian forces and control cities in Kurdish areas," Komala Party leader Abdulla Mohtadi told Newsweek.

Interview with Kurdish filmmaker Sevînaz Evdikê about the situation of women in Rojava and the Islamist regime in Damascus. Sevînaz Evdikê (born 1992 in Serêkaniyê, Rojava) studied film in Northern ...

Kerry Washington is going all in as a “Heated Rivalry” fan. “I just bought one of those candles on Instagram — an ‘I’m coming to the cottage’ candle,” she told me ...