The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could ...

When troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad retreated from Kurdish-majority areas in the north, a Kurdish party known as Democratic Union Party of Syria and its armed wing, the People’s ...

And some were recruited by the SDF as it swept through the Arab- and Turkmen-majority areas between the pockets of Kurdish settlement. The SDF also introduced the "duty of self-defense," a ...

Thirty Turkish Kurdish Workers Party PKK fighters destroyed their arms on Friday in a highly symbolic ceremony celebrating ...

Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in a historically Kurdish-majority area of the country's north which they have controlled since 2018, a Syrian defence ministry ...

The SDF’s military deterrence against Turkey and the SNA has diminished. It likely will contract to Kurdish-majority areas in Syria’s northeastern tip—a more limited territory than the ...

Inside the Kurdish majority areas and on their peripheries are a number of other ethnic groups, including the Faylieh in Iraq and the Elamites in Iran that, though closely linked with Kurdivary ...

Those who agree are permitted sometimes to stay in their homes but more often are relocated to areas of southern Iraq that have an Arab majority. Mike Amitay, head of the Kurdish Institute in ...

The Syrian Democratic Forces may have more significant sway in Kurdish-majority areas, however, it faces ongoing challenges in predominantly Arab regions, which were once under Islamic State control ...

Dara Qureshi scrolls through the contacts on his phone, each name an alias for activists across the border in neighboring Iran, where protests have been raging for two weeks.

Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in a historically Kurdish-majority area of the country's north which they have controlled since 2018, a Syrian defence ministry ...