Mugabe loses constitution vote; Thatcher to head British Tories; Stalin-Mao sign treaty; Kurdish revolt in Turkey.

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad transition ...

Imperialist and regional powers are helping the new regime gain international legitimacy by giving the impression that it has ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

An Apache helicopter patrolled the outskirts of the city of Hassakeh as a heavily loaded pickup truck, filled with displaced people and their salvaged belongings — mattresses, cooking pots, clothes — ...

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

The new Syrian government in Damascus sent a convoy of vehicles from the General Security Department to Afrin, a historically ...

That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...

A Turkish drone strike killed three Kurdistan Workers Party members in Iraqi Kurdistan. The strike, targeting vehicles and a ...

Turkey didn’t orchestrate Assad’s fall, but it’s certainly cashing in on the aftermath. Now, it wants to mould Syria in its ...