The European Parliament has condemned Turkish legal action against mayors from opposition parties, and called for municipal officials who have been detained in recent weeks to be released, acquitted ...

Despite his mercurial style, we probably can tell a lot about the new Donald Trump administration’s approach to Rojava (the ...

As the teachers attempted to bring their demonstration to Erbil, Kurdish security forces used tear gas and physical force to ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

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

An Apache helicopter patrolled the outskirts of the city of Hassakeh as a heavily loaded pickup truck, filled with displaced ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The joint deployment of Iraqi and Kurdish forces has curtailed ... cells of ISIS has ceased in the Kifri border areas, especially after the deployment of a joint brigade ...

In July 2012 there was an uprising in Kurdish areas, led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD). There was little resistance from Assad regime troops, most of whom surrendered without a fight. In Kobani, ...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which are backed by the United States, described the Sarrin attack as a “massacre.” “These attacks documented with photos ..not only condemn Turkey but ...

Areas of northern and eastern Syria controlled by the SDF still maintain a Arab-majority population leading to some clashes with the Kurdish-dominated group. Some returnees have been arrested, however ...