Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...

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 ...

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

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 ...

AMID the fetid gloom of a derelict Calais wine warehouse, Ahmed Adam insists he’ll risk everything to reach Britain’s shores.

Survivor of tragic Channel crossing recounts harrowing ordeal, says migrants were 'treated like animals' and left without ...