Gen. Mazlum Kobani, commander of Kurdish forces in Syria, said recent decisions by the U.S. in Syria potentially “leaves a vacuum” that ISIS could take advantage of. By Eve Sampson The ...

The leader of the Kurdish forces in Syria announced that his forces have reached a ceasefire agreement in the city of Manbij with Syrian rebel groups supported by Turkey, mediated by the United ...

A 30-year-old Kurdish man with Turkish nationality has been granted refugee status, according to government sources, which a refugee advocate group praised as the first such case in Japan.

Following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, a Turkish-backed Syrian militia is moving against Kurdish forces of the YPG in Syria, which the U.S. supports. Ankara accuses the armed group of being ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People take part in a Kurdish community march in response to the arrest of seven people said to be ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The commander of the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces warned on Wednesday that Islamic ...

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Syria was on the brink of a fresh round of conflict on Tuesday as Turkish-backed fighters advanced on the Kurdish-majority city of Kobane. Fighters with the Syrian National Army (SNA), a rebel ...

They are accused of being members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is banned in the UK. Members of the Kurdish community clashed with police following the arrests across London in ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Mazloum Abdi, chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced early Wednesday that they have reached a ceasefire deal with the Syrian National Army (SNA ...

Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire the Kurdish population of northern Iraq has suffered at the hands of a series of hard-line rulers. With no country to call their own, Iraqi Kurds have been ...