A notorious Kurdish gangster has fled Turkey to avoid extradition on drug-trafficking charges, a Swedish prosecutor has told The National. Rawa Majid, 39, known as the Kurdish Fox, had been living in ...

In Syria, many Kurds celebrated Nowruz in secret under Assad. With him gone, Kurdish people are throwing their biggest spring equinox party in decades. But some still fear for their safety.

She was walking through the town’s main square with her family dressed in traditional Kurdish clothes. Like Jalil, she voiced ...

Alongside the development of coffee shops came the ‘coffee culture’, a set of traditions and rules regarding the way cafes are used, and the way these delicious brews are enjoyed.

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts to establish a ceasefire between the Turkish government and the PKK raise ...

Syria’s interim president and former commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces ... while elements tied to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and even some international players seem poised ...

Over the last two decades, developments in the Middle East have helped transform the Kurds’ struggle for greater recognition and even self-determination from a country-specific issue to a ...

The United States on Tuesday hailed an agreement in Syria to integrate institutions of the autonomous Kurdish region into the national government. “The United States welcomes the recently ...

Syria's new authorities struck a deal to integrate the Kurdish-led administration into ... the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), last month called on his group to disband ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — Residents in northeastern Syria danced in the streets to celebrate a breakthrough pact between local Kurdish-led authorities and the new central government, while thousands of ...

Key provisions include ‘integration of all civil and military organisations in northeast BEIRUT: Syria’s new authorities struck a deal to integrate the Kurdish-led administration into state ...

Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa has struck a landmark agreement with the country's Kurdish-led region of Rojava in an unprecedented step toward a united Syria that recognises the rights ...