The Kurds are a group of people indigenous to the Mesopotamian plains and nearby highlands, which today stretch across ...

QAMISHLI, Syria, Jan 27 (Reuters) - With Syria's Islamist-led government bearing down on Kurdish forces, residents of their ...

President of the KRI Nechirvan Barzani’s quiet diplomacy could secure Syria’s northeast, protect US energy interests, and ...

In the space of two days, the Syrian military, aided by tribal militia, has driven Kurdish forces from wide swathes of northern Syria that they have held for more than a decade.

The new deal also calls for a cease-fire. Government forces have taken strategic assets from the militia in recent days, ...

A group of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) lays down and destroys their weapons in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq on July 11, 2025. A group of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) lays down and destroys ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The main drag in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city, is – in a word – alive. Vendors slice open bright pink watermelons. An elderly man stirs a pot of sherbet, a sweet, ...

Northeast Syria is rapidly changing hands, and with it the country's fragile balance of power.

Syria’s opposition needs to be more representative and inclusive, say U.S. officials mindful of the dangers of an increasingly sectarian civil war. But the scale of the challenge in creating an ...

A militant Kurdish group end its struggle against Turkey: grieving mothers ask if it was worth the high cost Two Kurdish mothers reckon with what peace could mean after decades of war DIYARBAKIR, ...