The Kurdish-led coalition that with U.S. troops fought Islamic State, will integrate with the Syrian government forces ...

After a period of relative calm in western Syria, the reported attacks raised the specter of continued sectarian conflict in ...

Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his pioneering speech in late February. In his ...

Following the call by Abdullah Ocalan to disband the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and to lay down arms, Syrian affiliates ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...

Andalibi is a widely respected nay (reed flute) player and an in-demand side player virtuoso for top traditional Persian ...

Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the ...

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the ...

Iraqi Kurdish villagers, displaced by fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants that has played out for years in ...

Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...

The militia wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party announced a cease-fire with immediate effect Saturday to halt decades of ...