Turkey and Saudi Arabia are two Sunni powerhouses that have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the ...

A woman walks in the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria's Hasakeh province, Syria, on 30 January, 2025.

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have announced an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate ...

Sykes-Picot divided Syria and the broader region for imperial gain—not peace. That mistake cost generations. We will not make ...

RYAN D. GRIFFITHS is Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University and the author of The Disunited States: Threats of ...

Growing partnership. The head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, Ibrahim Kalin, met on Tuesday with the Syrian ...

Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, is in Washington this week. The ...

Amid the buzz of Turkish drones buzzing over mountain passes, the sporadic blasts of FPV kamikaze drones, back-channel ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Baghdad has begun the process of registering land along the Development Road route in the southern ...

This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at how hard-line Iranian media have reacted to President Donald Trump’s historic ...

Trump isn’t exactly the kind of guy you picture reading Sun Tzu over a glass of Cabernet. He’s more likely to eat his steak ...

After 40 years, the Kurdish group PKK announced disbandment and an end to the Turkish insurgency. What is the PKK? Who are the Kurds? What is the history of the Kurdish question? Here's all you need ...