ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish lawmakers in Baghdad strongly criticized a decision by the federal government to ban the use of the Kurdish language in educational settings in disputed areas.Earlier ...

Dutch photojournalist Michiel Hegener, known for his photographs of the Kurdish revolutionary movement in the 1970s, returns to Kurdistan. Dressed in the same Kurdish attire he wore decades ago, he is ...

Following deadly clashes against the Druze and Alawites minorities, and amid the planned dissolution of the Kurdish PKK, ...

Welcome back to Al-Monitor Turkey. Things are looking up for Ankara as its quest for Eurofighters is nearing a successful ...

Turkey’s Kurdish political movement is unexpectedly emerging as a crucial partner in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ongoing ...

"Trust must exist first and foremost," Syrian Democratic Council representative to the U.S. Sinam Mohamad told Newsweek.

But they must not allow Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to use peace as a smokescreen for repression. Having ruled ...

This is the closest Turkey and the insurgents have come to peace since the PKK took up arms to fight for a Kurdish homeland ...

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani met with the new incoming commander of the anti-ISIS mission. The meeting took ...

A Kurdish source, speaking anonymously to The New Arab, claimed that Rubio used "fierce language" with Sudani, who faces ...

The anti-Islamic State coalition of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve received its new commander at a ...

Turkish officials say Syria’s interim government has requested Turkey’s help to boost its defense capabilities.