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

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

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the four decades since Kurdish separatist group the PKK took up arms against the Turkish government. On May 12, the group announced it would lay down ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ocalan's call for disarmament, if acted on by the PKK, is likely to have far-reaching implications for the entire Middle East, including for millions of ethnic ... the group out of Turkey's ...

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 ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Several thousand Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of the northern half of ethnically divided Cyprus’ capital Nicosia on Friday to protest what they say is Turkey’s ...