On Tuesday, civil aviation authorities announced "the suspension of flights to and from Aleppo airport for 24 hours and their ...

Diplomatic gains from Washington, Ankara, and Tel Aviv have enabled—not restrained—Syrian government operations against ...

In a rare incident, a PJAK fighter was killed in an Iranian drone strike in Iraqi Kurdistan. A PJAK official insisted that no attack on PJAK would go unanswered. The drone attack, which occurred last ...

Last month, fierce clashes broke out between armed Kurdish groups and Arab militias affiliated with the government of Syria’s embattled president Bashar al-Assad on the outskirts of Rumeilan, an ...

As the skies over northeastern Syria blackened with smoke this week, as Turkish warplanes swooped down and gunfire and shelling resumed in what had briefly been an oasis of relative peace in the ...

Kurdish forces faced their first major defeat in Iraq over the weekend, when militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized the towns of Sinjar, Zumar and Wana. The United Nations, ...

The Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples of the Middle East and the region's fourth-largest ethnic group. They speak Kurdish, an Indo-European language, and are predominantly Sunni Muslims. Kurds ...

The United Nations had just opened its general assembly in late September last year when President Donald Trump gave a rare, 81-minute press conference. Kurdish journalist Rahim Rashidi, who was born ...

Turkey's invasion of northern Syria following the U.S. abandonment of their Kurdish allies there has put the spotlight on an ethnic group that has long sought autonomy. The Kurds in Syria say the U.S.

Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces attend the funeral of a fellow fighter, who was killed while fighting against the Islamic State group in the northeastern Syrian Kurdish-majority city of ...

Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) was the first president of the Republic of Turkey, from 1923 to 1938. He is remembered for creating a modernized, secular Turkish state. (photo: Library of Congress) Kurdish ...

An ABC News correspondent returns to Syria four months after a Turkish invasion. Ali Ahmed is angry. We meet him in a refugee camp in northeast Syria, where he showed us the tent he calls home and the ...