In Syria, many Kurds celebrated Nowruz in secret under Assad. With him gone, Kurdish people are throwing their biggest spring equinox party in decades. But some still fear for their safety.

Thousands of people celebrated the Kurdish Nowruz spring festival on Thursday in Dohuk in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq. (AP video/Rashid Yahya) Multiple Police Officers Targeted Over ...

So for me, this region with a dark past is now indelibly just these joyous scenes from when I finally did visit in March — of Kurdish people celebrating the springtime Nowruz festival with more ...

Image Syrian Kurdish forces on patrol as Kurds gathered to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian new year, near the city of Qamishli. Image Internally displaced families sheltering in a school controlled ...

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 ...

Millions around the world are celebrating Nowruz this week. It's a 13-day secular festival, sometimes called Persian New Year. In Syria, it's celebrated mostly by Kurdish people. Many did so in ...