QAMISHLI, Syria, Jan 27 (Reuters) - With Syria's Islamist-led government bearing down on Kurdish forces, residents of their ...

The Kurds are a group of people indigenous to the Mesopotamian plains and nearby highlands, which today stretch across ...

President of the KRI Nechirvan Barzani’s quiet diplomacy could secure Syria’s northeast, protect US energy interests, and ...

Rebwar Hazhar, the chairman of Conservative Friends of Kurdistan, told The Jerusalem Post that Washington’s relationship with Damascus would only be temporary.

Kurdish opposition groups in northwestern Iran have actively supported protests against the Iranian regime during the first two weeks of January. Amid the Iranian government’s crackdown, seven Kurdish ...

In the space of two days, the Syrian military, aided by tribal militia, has driven Kurdish forces from wide swathes of northern Syria that they have held for more than a decade.

No casualties were immediately reported, but the fighting deepens the deadlock between Damascus and the SDF over the future ...

December 26, 2025: Last July an Iranian drone attack killed a PJAK/Party of Free Life of Kurdistan gunman, which caused PJAK members to retaliate. This and related violence indicated a breakdown in ...

The new deal also calls for a cease-fire. Government forces have taken strategic assets from the militia in recent days, ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The main drag in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city, is – in a word – alive. Vendors slice open bright pink watermelons. An elderly man stirs a pot of sherbet, a sweet, ...

Syria’s opposition needs to be more representative and inclusive, say U.S. officials mindful of the dangers of an increasingly sectarian civil war. But the scale of the challenge in creating an ...