The SDF, which controls the oil-rich northeast, seeks broader autonomy and recognition of Kurdish rights -- goals that clash with the new government's drive for a unified central state. Disputes over ...

On 22 September, Iranian Kurdish Human Rights Defender, Jina Modares Gorji was released from prison. She had been arbitrarily detained and sentenced to an unjustifiably severe sentence in May 2024.

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A cautious calm has settled in Syria's Aleppo after overnight clashes between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters DAMASCUS, Syria -- DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A cautious calm spread Tuesday in ...

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Syria’s minister of defense announced a ceasefire Tuesday after overnight clashes between security forces and Kurdish fighters in neighborhoods of the northern Syrian city of ...

Tensions have been building over government attempts to bring the Kurdish-led region in northeastern Syria under its authority. Kurdish leaders have so far resisted. By Carlotta Gall Reporting from ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A cautious calm set in Tuesday morning in neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria after overnight clashes between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters. The ...

Armed drones and tanks in the streets of Sulaymaniyah, the second city of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, were a shocking sight in August in what was once the most stable part of Iraq. The ...

The Iraqi Kurdistan Region remains without a government nearly a year since parliamentary elections were held in the region. The influential parties have been unable to agree on a cabinet lineup, ...

An Italian aframax is due to load the first Kurdish crude cargo from Turkey in two years following the reopening of the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline. Two industry sources told the Asharq Al-awsat website that ...

Forces of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) raided the private Assyrian Christian schools in the cities of Hasakah and Qamishli, shutting them down by force on Monday 29 September, several ...