Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, could be any suburb in the Tokyo orbit. Population 600,000. Thirty minutes by train from the metropolitan core, where many residents work, though local industry ...

A migrant boat carrying Syrian passengers, including Kurds, has gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea after departing from ...

If Kurds are united, they are strong. We don’t need enemies or opponents; disunity weakens us and makes us lose opportunities ...

In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam ...

Turkey has its eye on hundreds of billions of dollars of rebuilding contracts in Syria and elsewhere in the region.

Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the ...

Talks with the jailed PKK leader spark hope for ending Turkey's 40-year conflict amid shifting alliances and regional ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

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

Following the fall of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad last month, US-backed Kurdish forces have been under mounting ...

Omer immigrated to Canada in 2017, but his connection to his homeland remains strong. Before arriving, he was a vocal critic ...

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