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

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

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

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

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

So, this is a big threat for the Kurdish populations in Syria, and this is also a big threat for this democratic confederalist, women’s liberationary and pluralist experience that Kurds ...

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 ...

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of ...

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 ...

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