The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

The government in Damascus envisions a “peaceful” path to exerting power over the Kurdish northeast and not a military one, Syria’s defense minister told the Washington Post in an interview published ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and occupying more Kurdish territory. The all-female Syrian Kurdish ...

Ankara is open to various models for the Syrian Democratic Forces, including political representation in Damascus' national ...

On the other hand, he has threatened to “bury” the Kurds “in the ground” if they do not respond to Bahceli’s overtures and ...

A Turkish drone strike on Thursday killed three members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said, the latest military pressure from Turkey ahead of an ...