The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

The jailed founder of a Kurdish nationalist group has called for the movement to lay down its arms, but Kurdish forces seem ...

The Kurdish-led group which governs northeast Syria on Friday rejected a constitutional declaration issued by the new ...

Turkey revives Kurdish peace talks after years of deadlock. But military strikes on PKK positions cast doubt on the process. A conflict spanning decades At least 40,000 people have been killed in ...

April 6-7, 2005 – (IRAQ) Kurdish leader Talabani is selected the country ... May 18, 2015 – (TURKEY) In the run-up to parliamentary elections on June 7, an explosion rocks the office of ...

Erdogan has been eyeing a constitutional change that will allow him to run for a third term in the country’s ... whose lawmakers liaised between Ocalan and government and read out the Kurdish leader’s ...

The militia alliance that controls much of north-eastern Syria will merge with new state institutions, the presidency says.

Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli ...

Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their ...