In northern Iraq, the only air defence comes from the US military stationed 175 miles away in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish area. But that’s in place primarily to defend American troops ...

The move cements a US-brokered truce and signals Damascus’s intent to integrate the Kurdish-led northeast into the national ...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights has condemned the torture and killing of Alaa Adnan al-Amin, who was forcibly disappeared in October 2025.

Kurdish militancy is also likely to be met by resistance from other opposition groups and the wider Iranian population. Over ...

As the United States-Israel war on Iran continues to dominate international headlines, below is a roundup of some of the stories you may have missed on Tuesday. Syrian ex-colonel ...

Syria named Kurdish commander Sipan Hamo assistant defence minister after a deal to integrate Kurdish forces into the national army.

The Kurds have been let down time and again by the U.S. Here’s why they might still partner with Americans in Iran.

When Iran’s Assembly of Experts selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader, some observers held out hope that a generational transition might open a path to diplomacy. That hope is ...

Syria's defence ministry said ​on Tuesday that Sipan Hamo, commander ‌of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), had been appointed deputy defence minister for the ​country's eastern territories.

The zigzag comes amid reporting that the CIA and Mossad have been coordinating for months to arm thousands of Kurdish fighters positioned along Iran’s northwestern frontier.

President Donald Trump said there could "possibly" be ground troops going into Iran, but "there would have to be very good reason" to send them.