A damaged home in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo. (Mauricio Centurion) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

The silhouette of a hand indicates a “Victory” sign behind a Kurdish flag in Kobane, Syria, in February 2015.(Photo by Antonio Pampliega / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images) Turkish armed forces have ...

SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish school systems in the Kurdistan Region and northeastern Syria (Rojava) agree on medieval Kurdish symbols but diverge on more recent history, a French scholar told ...

In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led region of northeastern Syria. “We need to stand with the Kurds, and ...

In 2012 the PYD, a Kurdish political party connected to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) based in Turkey, took advantage of the spiralling chaos of the Syrian civil war to eject regime forces from ...

Among supporters of the Syrian opposition, there is increasing cynicism (if not occasional disdain) toward the People’s Protection Units, better known by their Kurdish acronym the YPG. Across the ...

An international statement signed by Bandilang Itim. We will defend the social revolution in Rojava with all our power. The bloodthirsty imperialist interventions can be suspended only by the ...

Early in the Iran war, media reports on a possible Kurdish invasion of Iran from Iraqi Kurdistan circulated globally, but no such action ever took place.