Though the museum bears Barzani’s name, it also honours a wider pantheon of figures who contributed to the Kurdish cause ...

ACCORDING TO ONE legend, the Kurds are descended from 400 virgins who were raped by devils on the way to King Solomon's court. Fatah Kavian, a member of the central committee of the anti-Khomeini ...

The Trump administration is granting Syria a waiver from one crippling set of sanctions as well as easing restrictions on businesses as a first step in its pledge to end a half-century of penalties ...

Israel struck Syria's Latakia, targeting missile sites it said threatened navigation. First attack in a month amid indirect ...

U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State (IS) militants surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militants out could take up to four months.

In their meeting on Thursday, Mr. Rubio and his Syrian counterpart, Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani, discussed a road map for the sanctions to be lifted, according to statements from the Turkish and ...

For groups he sees as strategically useful (or favors for some other reason), the path to statehood will become more ...

(AP Photo) This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo) QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria announced Monday they have reached an agreement with the ...