An official with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Thursday the militant group would agree to leave northeastern ...

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...

Kurdish leaders Masoud Barzani and Mazloum Abdi meet in Iraq to discuss unity and strategies during Syria's transitional ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

The new administration’s first visit to Ankara comes amid an intensifying struggle for the partition of Syria between the ...

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The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...

France is trying to find ways to support its Kurdish allies as fears grow over their ability to maintain ISIS prisoners in ...

On Dec. 15, Turkish National Defense Minister Yasar Guler called dismantling Kurdish forces Ankara’s “primary issue in Syria.” “We have expressed this to our American friends. We expect ...

A key dam in northern Syria has become a flash point in the conflict between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed armed groups ...

In eastern Syria, many Kurds are fearful that Turkey will take advantage of the chaos in Syria to launch an attack on several areas where Kurds live. Members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic ...

Days later, Turkey launched a cross-border offensive into positions held by U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters, carving out a chunk of northern Syria, forcing the flight of more than 300,000 people ...