The Kurdish rebels of Rojava, the northeastern region of Syria, promised a type of revolution that had never been done before. Rather than trying to break the country into ethnic states, they would ...

BEIRUT — Syria's Kurds, long held in disdain by Damascus, are edging toward autonomy in their heartland along Turkey's border as they capitalize on the tactical goals of both Washington and Moscow. To ...

The Syrian government under President Ahmad al Sharaa has moved to reassert control over Kurdish-held territories in the country's north and northeast. Kurds facing pressure both from Damascus and ...

The agreement that terminated the Syrian Kurdish enclave was presented by its signatories as a pragmatic settlement. But, in fact, the deal is a major political defeat for the Syrian Kurdish political ...

Syria is at a “major turning point”, said Noura Doukhi in L’Orient-Le Jour (Beirut). When the current president Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former leader of the Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Days into the United States and Israel’s war against Iran, Trump officials and Kurdish leaders began openly musing about whether Iran’s Kurdish minority should seize on the dire ...

Rojava is the name given to the part of this fragmented geography that lies within Syria. In Kurdish, it means ‘west’. If our ...

The Kurdish rebels of Rojava, the northeastern region of Syria, promised a type of revolution that had never been done before. Rather than trying to break the country into ethnic states, they would ...