The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Security forces affiliated with the new leadership in Damascus briefly visited Afrin on Thursday and received a warm welcome from locals, including Kurds who raised the ...

Kurdistan’s significance for Israel must be ... At the UN General Assembly in 2019, Erdogan shared a map showing Turkey’s desired control of all of northern Syria. The question then arises ...

ANKARA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he and Syria's newly appointed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, had discussed in Ankara on Tuesday steps to be taken against Kurdish ...

The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army has been battling Kurdish-led forces — AAREF WATAD Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa visits Ankara on Tuesday for talks with Turkey's leaders on ...

On Sunday, Iraq’s parliament voted on a key plan for the compensation of oil companies operating in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region that would speed up the restart of crude oil exports from ...

Istanbul (AFP) – Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa visits Ankara on Tuesday for talks with Turkey's leaders on rebuilding his land and the volatile issue of Kurdish fighters near the ...

KAWAGUCHI, Saitama Prefecture--Hate speech has again reared its ugly head, in this case against the Kurdish community living close to Tokyo. It follows an altogether familiar pattern: phone calls ...

Hidenobu Matsuzawa bashfully accepted an invitation for a meal offered by a grateful woman, one of the countless Kurdish people in Japan he has helped over the past 25 years. Even at 72 ...

According to SDF representative Laila Moussa, the diplomatic solution of the Kurdish issue will benefit all sides, including Turkey which continues to use aggressive rhetoric BEIRUT, February 5.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mazloum Abdi, commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeastern Syrian city of ...

Proposed by the Finance Committee, the amendment aims to appoint an international technical advisory firm to assess fair production and transportation costs for oil fields in the Kurdistan Region ...