Strengthening ties between the Kurds and Israel could counterbalance Turkish and Iranian ambitions, promote regional ...

After decades of fighting an insurgency, the Kurdish group declared a cease-fire. Two days earlier, the P.K.K.’s imprisoned ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his militant group Thursday to lay down its arms and ...

There was a show of military force by the Druze in as-Suwayda in southern Syria, led by the commander of the “As-Suwayda Military Council”, Tariq al-Shufi. As previously mentioned, al-Shufi ...

But as in Turkey, the response of the Kurds in Syria to Öcalan's call is far from a foregone conclusion. Regionally, the move could redraw the map of alliances, especially if it succeeds in ...

His call will have a serious impact on the political map of the Middle East and will be a milestone ... allowing Turkey to pursue its attacks against the Syrian Kurds even as it makes peace with its ...

Ocalan repudiated the “extreme nationalist deviation” of seeking a separate Kurdish state, insisting that the Kurdish ...

Israel’s expansionist ambitions continue to drive the erasure of Palestine, raising the critical question: Can the US and ...

Yet many of his memories of Syria before the civil war are remarkably sweet. “In my school we had Christians and Muslims, we had Kurds and Arabs ... Hasan’s story in Map of Hope and Sorrow ...