America is strongest when we stand firmly with those who share our values — and as secretary of state I saw the Kurds’ friendship in action.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Trump asked al-Sharaa to expel foreign militants, assume control over ISIS detention centers from Kurdish-led forces, and consider ...

The Trump-al-Sharaa handshake may become one of the most controversial images of this presidency — one that will be remembered not just for what it symbolised diplomatically, but also for the ...

This was no ordinary handshake between heads of state. The man shaking Trump’s hand — and receiving promises of sanctions relief — was once better known to US intelligence under a different name: Abu ...

At the most conservative estimates, Syria will need about $250 billion to $300 billion in aid and investment to rebuild its ...

Imán Nader and her family were living in a refugee camp in Cyprus when Pope Francis came to visit.

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad.

The prospects of Kurds being able to realise their aspirations for statehood have brightened. At the same time, Kurds remain divided along national, tribal, and intra-ethnic lines ...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters, doubling down on a decentralised ...

A ceasefire between Syria's Kurds and the government in Damascus ends hostilities and grants first-time rights to the marginalized minority. Does the deal also mean an end of the Kurdish quest for ...

Following a handshake between the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the pro-Kurdish People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM-Party) in the Turkish parliament on October 1, 2024, a DEM-Party ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.