Syrian government forces entered the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Tuesday as part of a deal agreed last week to ...

The European Union must be "less naive" and "more transactional" in global climate negotiations and consider using financial and trade leverage to assert its position, the French ecology ministry said ...

Erfan Soltani, 26, faced the death penalty after being detained during mass protests in January. Iranian authorities appeared ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Iraqi calligrapher Ali Zaman gazes with pride at his masterpiece — a colossal, handwritten manuscript of the Quran that has taken six years of craft and devotion to complete.

Iran is a multi-ethnic state — yet its leadership has failed to find an answer to recurring protests, minority grievances and deepening environmental crises.

Kurdish-run prisons hold about 8,000 suspected IS fighters and around 34,000 of their family members in camps.

According to the agreement with the Syrian government, the SDF will withdraw from the front lines. Then, government forces ...

As conflict has flared, the White House has strongly backed Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa - a former Jihadi. That's a slap in the face for the Kurds. The SDF lost 11,000 fighters battling ...

The Syrian government’s campaign to wrest the country’s northeast from the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led militia is fueling a fierce debate in Washington over whether to support the country’s new president ...

Kamran Matin is affiliated with Kurdish Peace Institute. Many Kurdish people will be feeling betrayed by the US after the Syrian army, backed by the US and armed by Turkey, launched an offensive ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The options for the sdf are bleak. Its units are to be dismantled and its fighters integrated into the Syrian army; there will be no Kurdish-majority units. The autonomous administration built during ...