IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its ...

On the night of June 13, at 03:10, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that Israel had launched a preemptive ...

Will the Middle East emerge from its disastrous post-Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region’s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, stability, and ...

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

The Kurdish-led militia that governs much of northeastern Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces, agreed in March to integrate its military and other institutions, including its prized oil and gas ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and the leader of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, signed a deal on Tuesday. This historic pact is being praised across the Middle East and ...

More worryingly for the Kurds in this region – that they have named Rojava – Turkey, which is now in a position of strength, and its Syrian National Army (SNA) auxiliaries have made no secret ...

Two areas escaped its control: Kurdish-held territory in the east and Idlib, which was governed by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a rebranded JN (it sought to distance itself from its jihadist roots).

That leaves the Kurds. While they have been reliable partners with the United States against ISIS, they control a small amount of territory in Syria.

Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – charting a nation coming to terms with the end of decades of brutal ...

As foreign powers look to shape Syria’s political landscape after the toppling of the Assad regime, the country’s Kurdish population is in the spotlight. Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

With Syria’s new government still taking shape, a U.S. abandonment of the SDF could also leave Kurds—who make up about 10 percent of Syria’s population of roughly 23 million—vulnerable to ...