In preparation for confronting Kurdish parties, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has, for more than two months, been working to increase the number of its loyal “Muslim Peshmerga” ...

Syrian Kurds ran their own autonomous region for 12 years after breaking away from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

Fighting has returned to northeast Syria. Government forces are again pushing to take control of areas still held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). A temporary truce is now in place, but after ...

In the breathtakingly rugged Turkish province of Hakkari, pristine rivers surge through spectacular mountain gorges and partridges feed beneath tall clusters of white hollyhock. I’m attending the ...

Syrian transitional government troops and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had been fighting for weeks in northern Syria. On Tuesday evening, the announcement of a four-day ceasefire ...

Since the collapse of Rojava, which resulted in the loss of sovereignty over all its territories in the Eastern Euphrates – areas that the self-administration had controlled for nearly 14 years – ...

Kurdish tribes have lived in Anatolia since at least 1,000 B.C., twenty centuries before the first Turks arrived there. Ancient historians described them as a people not to be trifled with. Xenophon, ...