Relatives say the migrants initially attempted to reach Europe through the perilous Libyan route but became trapped after the ...

The deadliest clashes so far broke out Tuesday between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in a contested area of ...

Deadly exchanges around Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud Kurdish neighborhood prompted conflicting statements from Asayish, SDF, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Iddon is a freelance journalist focused on Middle East affairs. Members of the Syrian Kurdish Asayish security forces stand ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK started laying down its weapons, marking the beginning of a disarmament process aimed at ending one of the Middle East’s longest-running insurgencies. A group of 30 ...

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Syrian authorities and a Kurdish-led force exchanged Monday more than 400 prisoners as part of a deal reached earlier this year between the two sides. The exchange in the northern ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with US Special Envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack at the People's Palace in Damascus. -/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa hosted ...

Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) agreed to de-escalate fighting in the northern city of Aleppo late on Monday, after a wave of exchanges that both sides ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Syria’s defense minister announced a ceasefire Tuesday after overnight clashes between government forces and ...

An unnamed official at the US State Department said the US was continuing to support dialogue between the US-backed Syrian ...

A first group of PKK militants burnt their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in northern Iraq — Shwan MOHAMMED Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on ...

BAGHDAD Reuters) -Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a towering figure in Kurdish politics as Iraq heads into its ...