Iraq’s top court has thrown out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last month by the country’s parliament ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Kurds in the new Syria hope to preserve cultural rights they gained in years of war - Kurdish leaders are negotiating with ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It soars over the borders and divisions of the war-torn Middle East, bringing Arab and Israeli academics together. An unlikely symbol of cooperation, the barn owl is now ...

WILLIAM KEO FOR 'LE MONDE' With Assad's overthrow, many Arabs in Rojava are demanding HTS-affiliated governance and reintegration of their locality into a unified Syria, heightening the Kurds ...

The border guards were Iraqi Kurds and the clash occurred after the PKK fighters were denied passage through an Iraqi Kurdish border post, security sources said. The PKK - which is designated a ...

Sunni blocs in the Iraqi parliament have been pushing for the law as many of those in prison on such charges are Sunni Muslims ... which was pressed by the Kurds, allowing the return of farmlands ...

The Iraqi parliament controversially passed three laws as a package on Tuesday: the amended personal status law, a general amnesty law, and the repeal of Ba'athist decisions on Kurdish land in ...

The Federal Government of Iraq aims to unify the country under its ... per month in budget payments to the Kurds. This agreement – which again functioned properly only sporadically – was ...

Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the national army but stood ready to use force should negotiations fail.

Iraq has passed a law that would legalise the marriage of children as young as nine. Three divisive laws have now been passed which give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters ...