The March 10 Damascus-SDF agreement remains stalled amid Kurdish demands for decentralization and inclusion, with analysts ...

Kurdistan has cleared 576 sq km of mines, but 13,600 casualties and Baghdad’s lack of cooperation have delayed full clearance until at least 2028.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, does not want to risk that. Letting out Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician and former presidential candidate, would have been a less controversial ...

With Syria's new leadership emerging as a key U.S. partner, American troops in the country find themselves amid a complex ...

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS ...

A decades-old case has come back to haunt Turkey, as Europe’s top rights court says a man's life sentence was built on an ...

DAMASCUS — A year after Syria's prolonged civil conflict ended with the fall of the Bashar al-Assad government, many Syrian ...

So Long as the United States Supports Party Militias in Iraqi Kurdistan, There Will Be No Security or Stability in the Region In the early morning hours of August 22, 2025, security forces loyal to ...

Fluent in Kurmanji (Kurdish), Arabic, Farsi (Persian) and English. Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since 1979. The KDP has an estimated 10,000 fighters and controls the northwestern ...

On July 11, 2025, following Abdullah Öcalan’s call to disarm and dissolve the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 30 guerrillas symbolically burned their weapons in Jasana Cave, Slêmanî, a historic symbol ...

Pinar Dinc is the principal investigator of the ECO-Syria project, which receives funding from the Strategic Research Area: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW) at the Centre for Advanced ...

Pinar Dinc is the principal investigator of the ECO-Syria project, which receives funding from the Strategic Research Area: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW) at the Centre for Advanced ...