The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

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

By the end of 2011, the Syrian Civil War had started, becoming a long-standing symbol of conflict in the Middle East.

Groups that refuse to lay down their arms and submit to the defence ministry's authority will play no part in a national ...

Assad’s regime, Turkey has intensified its military operations in northern Syria – targeting Kurdish groups and even pursuing ...

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

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

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The commander of the main U.S.-backed force in Syria says that the recent ouster of the Assad family from power should be ...

Syria’s Kurdish administration plans to clear northeast camps of displaced Syrians, Iraqis, and suspected IS relatives by ...

showing supporters of the Syrian Democratic Forces, one of whom holds up a portrait of Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP Can the Autonomous ...