The leaders of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq on Sunday commemorated the Halabja massacre of Kurds that ...
Islam remains the religion of the head of state, Arabic is the sole official language and the constitutional declaration offers no guarantees or protections for Syria’s minorities.
Syria's new temporary constitution concentrates power in interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's hands and fails to include ...
Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.
The retired 76-year-old professor of political science was already serving an 18-month sentence for criticizing the Iranian ...
In Syria, there's been a major development as U.S.-backed Kurdish forces who have controlled part of the country for more than a decade have agreed to be incorporated into the Syrian state.
Tehran’s recent setbacks have paved the way for Ankara’s ascent. The Ankara-backed Azerbaijan’s triumph over Tehran-backed ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what ...
(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File) The grandmother of Turkish soldier Adil Kabakli, one of thirteen Turkish soldiers, police and civilians who had been abducted by Kurdish insurgents and found killed in ...
A man displays a flag bearing the image of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan is seen during the celebrations of the Kurdish New Year 'Newroz' in Frankfurt am Main. The imprisoned leader of ...
Militants from the Kurdish ethnic group who have fought an insurgency against Turkish authorities for more than four decades ...
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the group ...