For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

It was a development in the Syrian drama almost as unexpected as the stunningly swift fall of the Assad regime that had ...

The deal aims to stitch back together a country fractured by 14 years of war, paving the way for Kurdish-led forces which hold a quarter of Syria to merge with Damascus, along with regional Kurdish go ...

The United States encouraged its Syrian Kurdish allies to reach Monday's landmark deal with the Islamist-led government in ...

The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition ...

Syrian Democratic Forces Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi (left) and Syrian interim President Ahmed al Sharaa shake hands after signing an integration ...

Since Turkish Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli launched his call in October 2024 for the disbandment and disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in exchange for the ...

Tensions had been building between the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and the new central Syrian government before the ...

Lots of clouds, but some silver linings and even rays of sun are on the horizon as we take stock of developments across the region in our selection of Premium stories this week.

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 ...

Thousands of women have taken to the streets of Turkish cities to mark International Women’s Day, protesting inequality and violence against women ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...