In late March, members of Japan's Kurdish community gathered at a park just outside Tokyo to celebrate "Newroz," or "New Day, ...

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In Istanbul on 27 February, Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, commonly known as the PKK, called on the organisation to dissolve itself and its militants to abandon ...

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The image of the two men meeting, having discarded their military uniforms and put on suits, illustrates how leaders can seize the moment and opt for peace over war. The leader of the Syrian ...

SDF commander Mazloum Abdi (L) signed the deal alongside interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) A Kurdish-led militia alliance which controls north-eastern Syria has signed a deal to integrate all ...

ANKARA, March 11 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and Syria's new government, saying all Syrians ...

People in Syria have been celebrating after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which control a wide area of the northeast, signed a deal with the government to integrate into state ...

Syria's interim government has signed a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country's oil-rich northeast. The agreement - which includes a ceasefire and the merging of Syrian ...