Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will kick off a two-day visit to the United States on Tuesday to discuss Kurdish armed ...

In addition, Kurds have been celebrating in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.A number of factors make this year different. In Syria, ...

Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their ...

With the disintegration of the Syrian state after 2011, the Kurds in northeast Syria became key players in shaping the country’s future. The recent agreement between Damascus and the Kurdish-led ...

Turkey has long regarded the YPG/PYD, which operates under the SDF banner, as an extension of the PKK, a group that has waged ...

A ceasefire between Syria's Kurds and the government in Damascus ends hostilities and grants first-time rights to the marginalized minority. Does the deal also mean an end of the Kurdish quest for ...

It was a development in the Syrian drama almost as unexpected as the stunningly swift fall of the Assad regime that had ...

In reaching an accord with Kurdish forces, Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharra has alleviated a potential flashpoint in a still-restive political landscape. Yet the agreement can only have ...

or whether it was merely an attempt to marginalise the Kurdish forces and limit their capabilities in the face of pressure from Turkey and the Damascus-Ankara axis. For now, the deal reflects a ...

Turkey is "cautiously optimistic" about an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ...

For Erdogan, securing peace would be a legacy-defining achievement, bringing stability and economic development to Turkey’s southeast while bolstering Ankara’s influence in Syria and Iraq. Yet, his go ...

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