As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called ...

A new anthology of writing on Gaza urges us all in the direction of sense and empathy, and a fuller understanding of the ...

As the brutal conflict nears its fifth year, Graham Phillips and Aiden Aslin's chilling face-to-face encounter is the subject of a gripping new podcast ...

The Syrian Democratic Forces withdrew abruptly from the sprawling Al Hol camp, according to Syrian and Kurdish officials, ...

An Iranian Kurdish separatist group in Iraq said it has launched attacks on Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in recent ...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party says that violence against Kurdish groups in Syria risks undermining reconciliation ...

However, the SDF was led by the main Kurdish fighting force in Syria, the People’s Protection Units, known as the YPG. The ...

Syria's government and the SDF engaged in months of talks last year to bring Kurdish-run military and civilian bodies under ...

Syria’s government and a US-backed Kurdish group agreed to end their clashes with a new deal expanding the regime’s control over vital territories and resources, including oil and gas fields.

While the SDF has been the main partner of the U.S. in Syria in the fight against IS, Ankara considers it to be a terrorist ...

The new deal also calls for a cease-fire. Government forces have taken strategic assets from the militia in recent days, ...

In the space of two days, the Syrian military, aided by tribal militia, has driven Kurdish forces from wide swathes of northern Syria that they have held for more than a decade.