The scenes of elation following Monday night's declaration came in sharp contrast to the grim scenes in coastal communities ...

The agreement was signed by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian ...

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

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

Abdi has called the deal a "real opportunity to build a new Syria." The deal was struck at a potentially historic moment for ...

But the Kurds' future depends on more than the good will of the Syrian government. For years, Turkey has been targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria's northeast.

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 ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, Kurds in northeast Syria were hopeful that the agreement announced Monday, which includes a ceasefire and the merging of the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces into the ...

Image: DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his ...