BEIRUT (AP) — Police in Syria’s beleaguered self-ruled Kurdish areas have rounded up hundreds of young men to press them into military service recently made compulsory, activists and Kurdish officials ...

AFRIN, Syria — Young Kurdish men, including members of religious minorities, recently signed up to join the Syrian government’s General Security forces in Afrin, an area in the country’s north from ...

JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Kurds took to the streets of the earthquake-ravaged Syrian town of Jinderis on Tuesday to protest the killing of four men as they lit a fire to celebrate the ...

Human rights activists gather in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 27, 2024, to condemn executions of political dissidents in Iran. Ali Khaligh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images Since the 2022 death of ...

Iraqi Kurdistan-based General Yazdanpanah says calls for “decentralization are meaningless, as they will not ensure Kurdish ...

Two Kurdish men agreed to go undercover for the BBC and expose a network behind illegal High Street businesses because the criminals are causing harm to the reputation of Kurds in the UK, they say.

MANBIJ, Syria — The large section of northeastern Syria once occupied by the Islamic State group is now a rare safe area in the war-ravaged country, thanks to a U.S.-backed coalition known as the ...

Women outside the Batman municipal hall show a banner reading, 'Feminists say no to trustees.' A women’s group has raised concerns about women’s institutions run by municipalities in the ...

CAMP DOMIZ, Iraq (Reuters) - Syrian troops usually came before dawn, rounding up young Kurdish men to force them into an army they did not see as their own and into a fight for a government that ...