The European Union (EU) has announced strong new sanctions against three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders. This ...

Something remarkable happened last week, though it didn’t get the attention it deserved: A long and brutal war came to an end ...

A separatist Kurdish group agreed to lay down arms to end a 40-year war for autonomy against Turkey, a historic step that could strengthen Ankara’s aspirations to become a regional powerhouse.

“Turkey’s military operation in northern Syria, spearheaded by armed Islamist groups on its payroll, represents an intentioned-laced effort at ethnic cleansing, relying on widespread military ...

Militants from the Kurdish ethnic group who have fought an ... two days after the leader of the militant PKK group, Abdullah Ocalan, whom Turkey has held in prison since 1999, called on his ...

(MENAFN) Turkey is committed to protecting all "aggrieved groups" in Syria ... millions of Sunni Arabs and ethnic Turks were displaced and forced to seek refuge in other countries.

Turkey accuses these groups of being aligned with the Kurdistan ... Turkey’s efforts have resulted in mass displacement and ethnic cleansing along its border with Syria. The Syrian regime ...

The Kurds are an ethnic group of roughly 40 million people — there are widely varying estimates — concentrated in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. They speak multiple dialects of Kurdish ...

Kurds are an ethnic group of at least 30 million people who were split between Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran when Western allies redrew borders following the end of World War I. The PKK was founded ...

calling for “reconciliation” between Turkey’s various political, ethnic, and religious groups. Last year, he came out in support of women’s right to wear Muslim headscarves in state ...

Part of a stateless ethnic group straddling Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Armenia and Syria, Kurds have so far been among the few winners of the Syrian conflict, controlling nearly a quarter of the country ...

Seen from anywhere in the city centre, the main dome’s height represents the 72 ethnic groups in Turkey [Arwa Ibrahim/Al Jazeera] Erdogan’s media presence helps him take a tightly fought ...