If any ethnic group deserves justice ... No such location is depicted on current maps, for the old Kurdistan now falls within the sovereign space of four separate states: Turkey, Iraq, Iran ...

SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...

He also highlighted the continued threat posed by remnants of ISIS and the dissolved Baath Party, warning that they serve as ...

A historic enmity exists between the Turkish state and the Kurdish minority over ethnic tensions and the issue of Kurdish independence. The Kurdish ethnic minority constitutes an estimated 15% to ...

Already, Turkey and Israel are at odds about the Kurds, Syria’s largest ethnic minority, and Israel’s military presence in the country. Last week, Rohani TV, a Syrian Kurdish broadcaster ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 laid the groundwork for the region’s present borders (see map 1). It largely ignored ethnic or sectarian ... escaped its control: Kurdish-held territory in ...

Stirring ethnic, religious, and sectarian tensions ... Erdogan reinforced an Islamic-nationalist alliance to push back against the threat posed by Kurdish separatists. In Arab countries, the ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

The commander of the main U.S.-backed force in Syria said the recent ouster of the Assad family from power should be followed ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday he hoped President Donald Trump would end US cooperation with the Syrian ...