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

A much anticipated statement by jailed Kurdish militant Abdullah Ocalan will very likely include a call for the Kurdistan ...

Abdi dismissed the idea of Syrian Kurds seeking independence or an autonomous government akin to Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.

It rejects independence for Rojava, the Kurdish region in northeast Syria ... whose members he views as terrorists because of their ties to the PKK, Turkish Kurds who have been fighting for ...

Ankara views them as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been waging an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and is deemed a terrorist group by both Turkey and the ...

Forbes highlighted that President Barzani's recent meeting with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi is a ...

The swift fall of Bashar al-Assad on December 8, 2024, marked the dramatic end of over five decades of authoritarian rule by the Assad clan in Syria. The future of the war-torn nation, however, is ...

This led to decades of oppression, especially after the Ba’ath Party controlled power in 1963 after Syria’s independence ... Öcalan (1948- ) is the imprisoned Kurdish philosopher and leader of the PKK ...