Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The experience of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is “invaluable” in the fight ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

If Milad Aspari is deported, his family said he will be killed because he is Kurdish, an ethnic and religious minority in Iran.

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish-led forces to integrate them into state ...

With the disintegration of the Syrian state after 2011, the Kurds in northeast Syria became key players in shaping the ...

The United States encouraged its Syrian Kurdish allies to reach Monday's landmark deal with the Islamist-led government in ...

The outburst seems to have been triggered by an incident last year in which a group of Kurds got involved in a fight and several people were stabbed. The usual complaints about visa issues and ...

Syria said that it had ended a government military operation in response to insurgent attacks that resulted in a spiral of ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

The new Syrian army also gains a highly-organised and trained Kurdish contingent with whom they can coordinate over security ...