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

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

The deal would allow Kurdish-led forces which hold a quarter of Syria to merge with Damascus, along with regional Kurdish ...

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

The new Syrian government has signed a deal with to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia into the ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

Moscow is resuming oil and gas operations in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region (KRI) to regain geopolitical influence lost after ...

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 ...

Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates ...

The 2022 protests hark to March 8, 1979, when Iranian women cowed clerics, writes Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi.

Iran and Turkey’s regional rivalry deepens as Ankara moves to make peace with the Kurds and expands its influence in Syria ...

Turkish and Iranian tensions have intensified after the top Turkish diplomat criticized Tehran's use of proxy forces in an ...