Assisting in the reconstruction of Syria is not nation-building but an investment in regional stability that will yield dividends for years to come, writes Owen Kirby ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria (Rojava) have not discussed handing over control of camps ...

Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating wit h the ...

The Alwaites, who primarily live in Syria's coastal regions, particularly in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, are ...

DAMASCUS - An anticipated meeting between Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) chief Mazloum Abdi and US Special Envoy for Syria ...

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Sunday evening's attack on the Saint Elias church, in the Dweil'a district on the southern outskirts of the Old City in ...

Kurds are working with the Syrian government to facilitate the return of Kurds who fled Afrin, a Kurdish city in north-west Syria, which the Turkish army and its proxies captured in 2018 (see map).

Contacts include regular phone calls between Israeli and Syrian officials, revolving security coordination, and an exchange ...

U.S. administrations castigated the PKK and praised democracy but never considered that the PKK created the only oasis of progressivism in the region.

Ashty Bahro, who founded the Christian group in 2007, has never received USAID or UN funding. But this would not be a problem ...

Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a ...