Iraqi Kurdistan-based General Yazdanpanah says calls for “decentralization are meaningless, as they will not ensure Kurdish rights in Syria being upheld, nor will they provide Kurds with freedom." ...

Last week, around 30 Kurdish fighters gathered alongside Iraqi and Turkish officials at a cave complex in the rugged mountains outside Sulaymaniyah, a city in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern ...

BEIRUT (AP) – Last month, while the world’s attention was focused on battles raging in Syria’s two largest cities, a quiet transformation was taking place in the country’s oil-rich northeast where ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s Kurds have imposed compulsory military service for their men to help ward off a push by Islamic extremists in the predominantly Kurdish areas in northern Syria, Kurdish officials ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The main drag in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city, is – in a word – alive. Vendors slice open bright pink watermelons. An elderly man stirs a pot of sherbet, a sweet, ...

IRBIL, Iraq — The closest U.S. allies in Iraq — the Kurds — feel abandoned by Washington these days and say war with the Arab-dominated central government is likely without American pressure to ...

Syria’s opposition needs to be more representative and inclusive, say U.S. officials mindful of the dangers of an increasingly sectarian civil war. But the scale of the challenge in creating an ...

ATRUSH, Iraq -- A line of 25 soldiers in green uniforms, camouflaged with pine branches stuffed into their ammunition belts, crept along the skirt of a conical hill approaching a bunker. Shots rang ...

A militant Kurdish group end its struggle against Turkey: grieving mothers ask if it was worth the high cost Two Kurdish mothers reckon with what peace could mean after decades of war DIYARBAKIR, ...