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The Islamist Sunni group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), along with the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), have now taken control of Syria.

Something unexpected is happening in Turkey. A centrist party, which has been shifting ever further to the right over the ...

The PKK’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire has won support among Kurds in southeastern Turkey, but hope for peace is ...

Turkey's peace process, aimed at ending a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants, faces uncertainty. Despite a call for ...

Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband ...

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

Kurdish groups in Syria's north-east on Sunday criticized the newly formed transitional government, saying the line-up failed ...

The government includes ministers educated in the West, one woman, and members of the Druze, Kurdish, Christian, and Alawite ...

On Tuesday evening, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Fulbright scholar researching children’s digital-media consumption at Tufts ...

BP had stalled plans for Kirkuk for years citing risks of political instability in the province claimed by Iraq’s autonomous ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...