The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

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

Turkey’s government dismissed the Kurdish mayor of the eastern province of Van after he was sentenced to prison for terrorism ...

The Islamist former insurgents now in charge need to build popular support and demonstrate rule of law. And they’re finding ...

People in the camp, home to more than 2,700 Syrian families from the Deir Ezzor region, are returning to their homes after eight years of displacement. Click here for the full story in Kurdish.

against Turkish airstrikes on the headquarters of the Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Mount Karachok on Tuesday, Syria April 26, 2017. (credit: REUTERS/RODI SAID ...

Jail in NE Syria holds some 4,500 detainees, many foreigners Kurdish force ... where tens of thousands of people are held. Many are family members of suspected IS fighters. At the prison, which ...

Kurdish leaders in Iraq and Syria are pledging to collaborate closely to advance Kurdish rights in Syria following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime last month. In a rare meeting ...

They were detained on suspicion of appointing people with alleged connections to Kurdish militants to municipal positions, thereby allowing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, to infiltrated ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during ...

Now Kurdish leaders are negotiating with the new authorities in Damascus on the future of their people, who made up 10% of the country’s prewar population. They don’t want full autonomy with ...