https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Kurds across the globe were given something to celebrate in a tiny corner of Sweden this month, when Dalkurd, only founded in 2004, earned promotion to the country's top football league Allsvenskan for the first time. https://www.thelocal.se/20171031/how-this-tiny-team-from-sweden-gave-15-million-kurds-something-to-celebrate Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:00:36 +0100 how-this-tiny-team-from-sweden-gave-15-million-kurds-something-to-celebrate Turks and Kurds have lived peacefully side by side for years in Sweden – but two incidents within a week are fuelling concern of tit-for-tat violence, amid heightened tensions in the Middle East. https://www.thelocal.se/20160219/turks-and-kurds-fear-revenge-violence-in-sweden Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:43:30 +0100 turks-and-kurds-fear-revenge-violence-in-sweden Around 50 expatriat Syrian Kurds gathered in Stockholm Saturday for a two-day conference on how to strengthen Kurds inside Syria and get them more involved in efforts to overthrow Bashar al-Assad's regime. https://www.thelocal.se/20110904/35942 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:17:00 +0200 35942 At 1.30am on Wednesday, around 140,000 people in Sweden will begin celebrating Norouz, the Iranian new year. https://www.thelocal.se/20070320/6746 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:05:00 +0100 6746 The first independent non-commercial Kurdish television station said it had started broadcasting to the Middle East via satellite from an undisclosed location near Stockholm on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20060515/3811 Mon, 15 May 2006 21:10:00 +0200 3811