The move to exchange prisoners comes amid reconciliation efforts between the Syrian government and the Kurdish forces.

Syrian authorities and a Kurdish-led force have exchanged more than 400 prisoners part of a deal reached earlier this year ...

Komala leader Abdulla Mohtadi told Newsweek that "the regime might collapse under pressure" if the U.S. lends its support.

Something remarkable happened last week, though it didn’t get the attention it deserved: A long and brutal war came to an end ...

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After more than a four-decade insurgency carried out by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) against Turkey, the US-designated ...

Turkey is now facing the question of how to address demands from the PKK and the pro-Kurdish DEM party to improve rights for the ethnic group. They are calling for recognition of Kurdish identity ...

Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some 400 people representing ...

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