This article is Soumya Awasthi, fellow, Centre for Security Strategy and Technology, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.

Kurds are an ethnic group of around 40 million people ... stretches from a tripoint with Afghanistan to the northern Arabian Sea. Roughly 9 million ethnic Baloch live on either side of the line, in ...

The train hijacking in south-western Pakistan represents a major escalation in the region’s long-running insurgency.

Syria's new authorities struck a deal to integrate the Kurdish-led administration into state institutions, as they push to extend their authority across the country while offering recognition for ...

The Balochistan Liberation Army claims it killed 6 security forces and seized a Pakistani passenger train carrying about 500 ...

In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government ...

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has emerged as one of the most prominent separatist groups in Pakistan, particularly in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan. Known for a string of ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

ISLAMABAD, March 11 (Reuters) - Separatist militant group the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed that they had taken hostages during an attack on a train carrying hundreds of people, including ...

That includes “border crossings, the airport and oil and gas fields,” the deal says, in return for recognising Kurds as an “essential component of the Syrian state”, guaranteeing the ...

(photo credit: REUTERS/Khurram) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), an insurgent group in Pakistan, said it captured a train full of people on March 11 and is holding 214 hostages. The BLA says it ...

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a separatist group fighting for Balochistan's independence, has intensified its insurgency, ...