ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Around 400 delegates have arrived in Qamishli, northeast Syria (Rojava) to attend the first Kurdish national conference aimed at bolstering Kurdish unity in Syria.

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Twenty Islamic State (ISIS) militants were arrested during a six-day operation by Kurdish forces at the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria ...

QAMISHLI: Syria’s Kurdish parties on Saturday adopted a joint political vision calling for a “decentralised democratic” state in Syria with guarantees for Kurdish rights. Their statement ...

The Kurdish quest for a state has remained unrequited. The nearest the Kurds came to realising this ambition was at the Treaty of Sevres in 1920, negotiated to dismantle the Ottoman empire.

U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters flash victory signs, as they withdraw from two neighbourhoods in Syria's northern city of Aleppo as part of a deal with the Syrian central government, in Aleppo ...

However, the Berlin Greens parliamentary group says that the neutrality law "hinders the access of women who have chosen to wear a headscarf to professions in the public service, and in some cases ...

In this series we explore the Kurdish issue - the persecution, the resistance and their attempts to form a state. We ask what does the future hold for one of the largest stateless ethnic groups in ...

FeatureAn agreement has been reached for the neighborhoods of Achrafieh and Sheikh Maksoud, which formed a predominantly Kurdish enclave within Syria's northern capital. They will gradually come ...

SAITAMA—The Saitama prefectural parks and greenery association has apologized for refusing to allow the Kurdish community to hold a spring festival here over concerns about trouble from protesters.

“The TRNC’s empty minister did not speak nicely, he just babbled on. Should the Imam be hostile towards the headscarf?” he said. “What a shame, we could not save Cyprus from Greek Cypriot ...

Women in Iran are increasingly deciding not to wear the veil in public, a senior journalist who visited Tehran has said. Speaking on Sky News podcast The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim ...