In the past, some Kurds were able to seek refuge in Iran during Saddam Hussein’s genocidal poison gas attacks. However, the ...

The diversity of the Kurdish parties and their complex ideological roots have meant that unity among them against the Iranian regime has always been a challenge. PAK, for instance, chose to fight ISIS ...

As conflict has flared, the White House has strongly backed Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa - a former Jihadi. That's a slap in the face for the Kurds. The SDF lost 11,000 fighters battling ...

The empire does not demand loyalty but conformity and obedience. When conformity is disrupted, that is, when the cost rises, those who were applauded yesterday can easily be declared “destabilizing.” ...

Damascus : Washington welcomed a prisoner and detainee exchange between the Syrian government and armed factions in the predominantly Druze southern province of Sweidah, as Damascus pressed ahead with ...

These secular autonomous cantons provided a safe haven for Kurds, Arabs, Christians, Yazidis, Armenians, secular Syrians, and ...

A picture Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is displayed inside a petrol station in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli, Sunday, Jan. 26, ...

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — 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 ...

The main demand of the Syrian Kurds is the preservation of the self-government bodies they created in the northeastern regions of Syria. Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Kurdish coalition, the Syrian ...

Pity the plight of the Kurds. The Kurds often quip that they are the largest people without a nation. That’s true. And they also say they have “no friends but the mountains.” That, too, is true. No ...

AKRE. Iraq — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the ...