After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

Hunting trafficking’s Kurdish big boss The mastermind of an international people smuggling network has gone into hiding after ...

The retired 76-year-old professor of political science was already serving an 18-month sentence for criticizing the Iranian ...

A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...

British authorities have arrested the captain of a cargo ship as they investigate the cause of a fatal crash between the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Washington welcomed an agreement between the Kurdish-led and ...

Israeli fire has killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and three more in the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours, ...

Iraq’s semi-autonomous north is grappling with a severe economic crisis, with many residents forced into massive personal debt.

In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a new bid to end a four-decade long conflict with ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's top court has rejected an appeal by a Kurdish man seeking damages of 11 million yen ($73,000) from the government for alleged assault at a Japanese detention ...

Why is Turkey seeking peace now with the decades-long Kurdish insurgency that claimed tens of thousands of lives?