In northeastern Syria, a growing community of artists—dancers, musicians, filmmakers—fights to preserve the region’s diverse ...

On November 19, the Syrian Army and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) battled near Maadan, Syria. While the two factions ...

Death Stranding and Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has issued a statement distancing himself from an Italian cartoonist after deleting a photo of the pair meeting at the Lucca Comics And Games 2025 ...

– There is a real possibility of a second Kurdish autonomy — after Iraq, now in Syria. But such an autonomy, if it appears, ...

The Kurdish political scene in the Middle East is no longer synonymous solely with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK); today, Kurdish presence in the region is distributed among diverse political ...

On October 26, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said it was withdrawing its fighters from Turkey. The withdrawal is part of a peace process that has seen the group say it will disarm and end a ...

Turkey used military dominance to dictate the terms of diplomacy, achieving a military presence on the ground while ...

A senior Kurdish politician from northeast Syria's (Rojava) on Tuesday claimed that the recent violence in the country's ...

The vast size of U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) includes nearly 2,000 square miles of restricted airspace, with clear, stable air and an extremely dry climate where inclement weather is a rarity.

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The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) confirmed intermittent clashes on the eastern Raqqa frontlines ...