Turkey and Israel face mounting tensions over future of post-Assad Syria
The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government has aggravated the already tense relations between Turkey and Israel, ...
Turkish top officials make sudden trip to Damascus after Syria’s deal with Kurdish-led group
Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus. The visit Thursday comes days ...
Syria flashes signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy
After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...
US steered Syrian Kurds towards Damascus deal, sources say
The deal would allow Kurdish-led forces which hold a quarter of Syria to merge with Damascus, along with regional Kurdish ...
The Iranian Dissident Asking Simple Questions
Like many Iranian reformists, Zibakalam was a revolutionary in the 1970s. He was born into a religious family in Tehran in ...
Kurdish Fighters Called a Truce, but Turkey Kept Up Lethal Strikes
Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...
Turkey's Erdogan welcomes Syrian deal with Kurdish forces
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ...
Syrian government signs breakthrough agreement to reintegrate US-aligned Kurdish forces
Tensions had been building between the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and the new central Syrian government before the ...
Syria’s new government strikes deal to integrate powerful Kurdish rival in landmark agreement
Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish-led forces to integrate them into state ...
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Russia Set to Resume Oil & Gas Operations in Iraqi Kurdistan
Moscow is resuming oil and gas operations in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region (KRI) to regain geopolitical influence lost after ...
Syria's neighboring foreign ministers call for lifting sanctions and reconciliation
Syria's top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries Sunday called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions ...
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Middle East: What an end of the PKK would mean for Kurds
Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his pioneering speech in late February. In his ...