Syria blames the unrest on a foreign conspiracy and "terrorist groups" that it says have taken advantage of protests to stir up unrest and destabilize Syria. But Assad has also acknowledged the need ...

NATO allies Turkey and the United States differed Monday on where they stand on the use of a key air base, with Turkish officials denying reports from the United States that there was a new agreement ...

Alongside the Shiite branch of Islam, other religious communities are also present in the country. Moreover, the factor of ...

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi in Erbil to discuss Syria's security and political situation. Both stressed stability, counterterrorism cooperation, and ...

Syria's new Constitutional Declaration explicitly adopts international human rights law, stating that all rights and freedoms ...

Seven women with links to the self-proclaimed IS-group, and their children, have arrived weeks after three women were ...

Syria had already held types of limited elections in other areas of Syria last year. However, areas outside government ...

After decades of denying Kurdish language and identity, Syria’s new leadership formally acknowledged the country’s Kurdish population earlier this year. But for many Kurds, the recognition remains ...

Editorial: The removal of an opposition party leader and closure of a liberal university show an authoritarian democracy moving closer to one-man rule ...

Democracy is under attack throughout the world, but, as a chronicler of Kurdish issues, I want to examine two recent blows in ...

My fellow military veterans and I understand something many have forgotten: resilience matters, discipline matters, loyalty ...