Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms and disband, and their group declared a cease-fire. By Ben Hubbard and ...

These meetings culminated in Öcalan’s February 27 statement, in which he urged his organization to lay down arms and abandon demands for Kurdish statehood, self-determination, autonomy, and even ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish-led forces to integrate them into state institutions as it tries to unify the country’s diverse communities ...

seeks to overcome the deep-rooted religious and ethnic divisions that have historically kept these Kurdish communities apart. Click here for the full story in Kurdish.

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent state in Syria amid the chaos gripping the region, it could accelerate secessionist movements in other Kurdish areas of the Middle East.

QAMISHLI, Syria March 9 (Reuters) - The commander of a Kurdish-led force in Syria said on Sunday the country's interim president must hold the perpetrators of communal violence in Syria's coastal ...

The agreement marked a major victory for Damascus in its quest to unify the country, as violent unrest continues to grip Syria’s coastal region. By Christina Goldbaum and Euan Ward Christina ...

This violence continued despite a recent agreement to integrate Kurdish forces into Syria's transitional government, questioning the agreement's ability to end the conflict. Click here for the ...

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...