The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

After 43 months without outside contact, jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has been allowed to meet with left-wing MPs.

The Kurdish leader has come under fire for calling on Israel to kickstart a 'peace process' despite its ongoing military ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Jordan will come together to fight the remnants of the ...

Turkey said on Tuesday it had killed 13 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and two in Iraq, a sign that Ankara has pressed ...

Security forces aligned with Syria's new government paraded with heavy weapons in the center of Deir ez-Zor city, vowing to expel SDF, led by YPG/PKK terrorists, from northeastern Syria.

The question is key for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of forces dominated by the Kurdish militiamen of the People's Protection Units (YPG), have been governing the region for 12 ...

After the ousting of president Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus last month, Ankara has threatened to crush the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which is a part of the SDF that it says is an extension of the ...

IRBIL, Iraq — The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups met in northern Iraq on Thursday in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has ...

Across the border in Syria, Turkish-backed militias continue to fight Kurdish YPG fighters. Turkey considers them as a threat to its territorial integrity. Yet, while Turkey regards the YPG as a ...

Since last month’s fall of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey has said repeatedly it was time for the Kurdish YPG militia to disband. Ankara considers the group, which spearheads the US-allied Syrian ...