Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, could be any suburb in the Tokyo orbit. Population 600,000. Thirty minutes by train from the metropolitan core, where many residents work, though local industry ...

A migrant boat carrying Syrian passengers, including Kurds, has gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea after departing from ...

If Kurds are united, they are strong. We don’t need enemies or opponents; disunity weakens us and makes us lose opportunities ...

In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

The Anfal genocide, one of modern history's darkest chapters, claimed 182,000 Kurdish, Assyrian, Shabak, Turkman, Yazidi, and Mandean lives and destroyed 4,500 villages.

Turkey has its eye on hundreds of billions of dollars of rebuilding contracts in Syria and elsewhere in the region.

Talks with the jailed PKK leader spark hope for ending Turkey's 40-year conflict amid shifting alliances and regional ...

Following the fall of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad last month, US-backed Kurdish forces have been under mounting ...

Omer immigrated to Canada in 2017, but his connection to his homeland remains strong. Before arriving, he was a vocal critic ...

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...