Israel, on the other hand, remains deeply suspicious of Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, pointing to his roots in ...

The case of a man whose confession was made public by Irbil security forces last month has raised questions about how the ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

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 ...

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

A KURDISH man carries a flag with a portrait of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan during Nowruz festival celebrations in Beirut, in March. (credit: AZIZ TAHER/REUTERS) "We, as the PKK, fully agree ...

Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan as they gather to watch live on a tv screen a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and ...

(Reuters) -The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, a news agency close to it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's ...