ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Germany’s foreign minister said on Friday that the security of Syria’s Kurds is “essential” for peace in the country and called for an end to attacks on Kurdish forces and ...

The consequences of Turkey’s and its Islamist allies’ ​potential ​takeover of northeastern Syria are profound, with significant implications for U.S. national security interests.

Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the nation has become a battleground for competing hegemons. The United ...

Steven Simon is a Distinguished Fellow and Visting Professor at Dartmouth College and a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute ...

Al-Monitor's top articles of 2024 delivered exclusive reporting on the Middle East's tumultuous year. From Assad's fall in ...

Stunning reports of positive exchanges between the long imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the ...

Turkey's president supported the rebels who overthrew Syria's Bashar Assad and has long supported Hamas, even hosting its leadership.

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of Kurdish militant group the PKK is hailed by many Kurds as an icon, but within wider ...

Post-Assad Syria will likely become a sanctuary for terrorism, and the United States and its allies will need dependable ...

Breakthrough. A delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party was permitted to meet with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned ...

The Kurdish population in Syria has been discriminated against since the establishment of the state in 1946. Kurds have ...