Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, could be any suburb in the Tokyo orbit. Population 600,000. Thirty minutes by train from the metropolitan core, where many residents work, though local industry ...

A migrant boat carrying Syrian passengers, including Kurds, has gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea after departing from ...

If Kurds are united, they are strong. We don’t need enemies or opponents; disunity weakens us and makes us lose opportunities ...

In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam ...

Talks with the jailed PKK leader spark hope for ending Turkey's 40-year conflict amid shifting alliances and regional ...

In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led ...

Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the ...

The outburst seems to have been triggered by an incident last year in which a group of Kurds got involved in a fight and several people were stabbed. The usual complaints about visa issues and ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

Baghdad and BP's negotiations over a major deal to redevelop Kirkuk's oil and gas fields must include Iraq's semi-autonomous ...