Jan 22 (Reuters) - Syrian Kurdish forces have lost control of big parts of the country this month as government troops under President Ahmed al-Sharaa seek to bring their security forces and territory ...

The Kurds are widely believed to be the largest stateless ethnic group in the world.

Washington cannot impose democracy in Syria, nor should it try to. But it can endorse Syria’s territorial unity while insisting that unity without minority rights is a recipe for more instability.

In the long and turbulent history of the modern Middle East, one of the region’s more enduring traits has been the willingness of the world’s major powers to betray the aspirations of the Kurdish ...

In the breathtakingly rugged Turkish province of Hakkari, pristine rivers surge through spectacular mountain gorges and partridges feed beneath tall clusters of white hollyhock. I’m attending the ...

Simon AGOPIAN (1857-1921) Kurdish man with rifle Oil on canvas. Signed lower right 60 x 41 cm (Cracked and missing) Provenance: Private collection. Bibliography: Armenian Painters in the Ottoman ...

ANKARA, TurkeyANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish Republic, founded from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire by the national independence hero Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, turns 100 on Oct. 29. Ataturk established a ...

The resilience of the Kurdish people who fight for their survival and autonomy serves as a testament to the enduring battle against colonialism, fundamentalism, and authoritarianism in this region and ...

Particularly, the Syrian Kurds now regard themselves as victims of international betrayal, as they were the most effective US ...