Abdi, by contrast, came to leadership via associations with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an organization that Turkey ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Residents of the Kurdish-held northeast Syria (Rojava) recently launched a campaign to aid the Alawite-majority areas in western Syria that were hit by violent clashes.

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...

But the Kurds' future depends on more than the good will of the Syrian government. For years, Turkey has been targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria's northeast.

(SANA via AP) The agreement stipulates that the Kurds are “an indigenous community of the Syrian state,” bestowing upon them full political and constitutional rights. Damascus will take ...