Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish opposition parties on Thursday slammed the exclusion of Kurds from a top committee tasked ...

March 16, 1988 – Hussein orders a poison gas attack on Kurds in Halabja in northern Iraq. More than 5,000 people are killed. August 2, 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, the beginning of the Persian Gulf War ...

Ami worries that Israel and Turkey, with their clashing ambitions, could undermine the country’s stability.

Organizers of a national conference to chart Syria’s political future say it will include all segments of Syrian society ...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pose the main challenge to Syria’s new administration, led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, as it seeks ...

MUNICH, Germany - The United States will continue its “strong” relations with the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, American Senator ...

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French President Emmanuel Macron urged Syria's interim government to cooperate with a U.S.-led coalition fighting against ...

Members on both sides of the aisle agreed that the U.S. should engage with the fledgling Syrian government to ensure ...