ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - United States forces are set to withdraw from Iraq's federal areas by the end of September, but an American analyst told Rudaw on Friday that some troops are likely to be ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Forty-seven French nationals have been transferred from northeast Syria (Rojava) to Iraq where they ...

The silhouette of a hand indicates a “Victory” sign behind a Kurdish flag in Kobane, Syria, in February 2015.(Photo by Antonio Pampliega / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images) Turkish armed forces have ...

At long last, the operation to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS) has begun. As an unlikely and uneasy coalition of the Iraqi Army, Shia militias, and Kurdish peshmerga grinds toward the ...

Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria, by Amy Austin Holmes, Oxford University Press, 272 pages, $99 The outlook for the Autonomous Administration of North ...

Key Points and Summary: As Turkish forces prepare to attack Kurdish self-governance in northeast Syria, Syrian Kurds face an existential threat under the incoming Trump administration, which may ...

THE KURDS have their own name for northern Syria: Rojava, which means where the sun sets. For decades that seemed fitting. Arab nationalists pushed them off their land and suppressed their language.

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — 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 ...

Among supporters of the Syrian opposition, there is increasing cynicism (if not occasional disdain) toward the People’s Protection Units, better known by their Kurdish acronym the YPG. Across the ...

BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) - Days after helping to capture the Iraqi town of Bashiqa northeast of Mosul, Syrian Kurdish fighters walk proudly past the corpses of Islamic State combatants still lying in ...

Between devastating natural disasters and relentless attacks by Assad and Erdogan, the Kurds of Syria face threats from all sides. A damaged home in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo.(Mauricio ...