Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

A Kurdish-led rebel coalition which dominates north-eastern Syria has signed a deal with the interim government in Damascus. The agreement, which means the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces ...

Women will overthrow the Islamic system established in Iran after the 1979 revolution even if the authorities survive a ...

Thousands of women have taken to the streets of Turkish cities to mark International Women’s Day, protesting inequality and violence against women ...

Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the ...

Greek mass protests and a general strike Friday marking the second anniversary of a deadly train disaster morphed into ...

What to know about the latest effort to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict The overture by Abdullah Ocalan is part of a peace effort at a time of heightened instability and ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has asked the members of the banned Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve the organisation for good. In a long-awaited statement read ...

The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has urged his followers to lay down ...

After decades of fighting an insurgency, the Kurdish group declared a cease-fire. Two days earlier, the P.K.K.’s imprisoned ...