Tensions have escalated between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the country's ...

In a 2024 article on Japan’s changing refugee policy in the Asia-Pacific Journal, Maximilien Xavier Rehm, a researcher at ...

Both announcements mark a big shift in Kurdish strategy. Kurds hope that relinquishing their arms will help them negotiate ...

The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Stalinoid party long strong in the fight for Kurdish rights in Turkey and in Syria) has ...

The dissolution was therefore ratified at an extraordinary congress on May 12, held in two different locations (one can never be too careful...). This is the culmination of a 25-year quest for a ...

Komala leader Abdulla Mohtadi told Newsweek that "the regime might collapse under pressure" if the U.S. lends its support.

The PKK declares an end to armed struggle after 40 years, following Abdullah Öcalan’s call. A historic shift for Turkey, the ...

The proposed changes would expand conditional release for some inmates but fail to meet demands of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party ...

The new Syrian transitional government is seeking to find a way to deal with thousands of ISIS families who have been housed ...

After more than a four-decade insurgency carried out by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) against Turkey, the US-designated terror group, says it has abandoned its armed struggle against Ankara.

There are roughly 20 million Kurds in Turkey, with zero recognition that they even exist. Zero. And this has nothing to do with Erdogan but everything to do with the Republic’s founding ideology.

“But now the world is silent in the face of attacks by Turkey and its proxy militias, allowing ISIS to strengthen once again.” There was no love lost between Assad and the Kurds. Father and ...