Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria are calling for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic ...

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This is the seventeeth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Rapid shifts and outbreaks of turmoil in Middle East politics have left their mark on the role and ambitions of the region's Kurds. With a population spread across key countries – Iraq, Syria, Turkey ...