The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

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

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish opposition parties on Thursday slammed the exclusion of Kurds from a top committee tasked ...

Organizers of a national conference to chart Syria’s political future say it will include all segments of Syrian society ...

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Groups that refuse to lay down their arms and submit to the defence ministry's authority will play no part in a national ...

Assad’s regime, Turkey has intensified its military operations in northern Syria – targeting Kurdish groups and even pursuing ...

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 ...

But that depends on Syria’s new leaders, and the outcome of an ongoing conflict between the Kurds and Turkish-backed rebels that’s been overshadowed by the dramatic shift from Assad rule.

A picture Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is displayed inside a petrol station in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli ...