The Syrian government and Kurdish-led forces on Monday ordered their fighters to cease fire following deadly clashes that ...

Students demonstrated at several universities in Iran, semi-official media reported, after demos by shopkeepers and bazaar ...

The Syrian army and the Kurdish-led SDF traded the blame over the reason for the attacks in Aleppo. Turkey blames Kurdish forces for not wanting to integrate into Syria's newly-established army.

The PKK has demanded the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison as a precursor to peace talks—but doing so would lead to a national crisis in Turkey. The ghosts of Turkey’s long ...

In recent months Turkey’s peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an armed Kurdish group that has been locked in a war with the country’s army for four decades, have picked up steam. In a ...

Iranian proxy attacks on Kurdish energy infrastructure could put US troops in danger. On the evening of November 26, the Khor Mor gas field in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq was ...

Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances that will shape the next government.

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their family members. By Alissa J. Rubin ...

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How the first excavations in an ancient city are supporting its claim as the oldest continuously inhabited place in the world The booming city of Erbil (ancient Arbela) in Kurdistan encircles the ...