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

Qabil Ashirov Read more Serious confusion has once again arisen regarding Germany's policy towards the South Caucasus.

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western ...

Challenges include uniting a patchwork of rebel groups, gaining control over multiple regions and rebuilding relations with ...

The Kurds live in a vast territory, which is split across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Armenia. While they share a common ethnic identity and are predominantly Sunni Muslims, they do not have ...

This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Christians are the most persecuted religious group on the planet. More than a dozen die each day for their faith. Although the deadliest place of all for Christians has been and still is Nigeria ...

Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates and the PKK headquarters in Iraq remain ambivalent. What are their options?