President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the upheaval in neighboring Syria as an opportunity to thwart Kurdish nationalism.

Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

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Turkey is attempting to form a new coalition to combat ISIS remnants and replace the Pentagon-backed Kurdish forces in Syria.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Baghdad must refrain from policies that are aimed at punishing the Kurds and must instead see them ...

Iran has reportedly executed some 909 prisoners in 2024, with Kurds making up 20 percent of the total, a human rights ...

Women comfort a relative of Ibrahim al-Hamad, who was killed by a Turkish-backed militia, during the funeral of four Syrian Democratic Forces fighters in northeastern the village of Daoudiya ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during ...

The Kurdish language is taught in schools. The new year, Nowruz, can be celebrated openly. The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without a state of their own, have been feeling some ...

Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration aims to empty camps in the northeast of thousands of displaced Syrians and ...