The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with over 30 million people living across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The PKK ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced in May that it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades ...

Earlier Israeli strikes hit the Syrian defence ministry, as well as government forces in the southern part of the country.

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters clad in camouflage fatigues burned their weapons in a large cauldron in northern Iraq on ...

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The Israel Defense Force attacks regime troops affiliated with Syria’s interim president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, while the new ...

Syria’s worst wildfires in years have been brought under control after 10 days of intense firefighting. Civil Defense ...

Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing — thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions are thought to be political and criminal.

Fighters with the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, began laying down their weapons on Friday in a symbolic ceremony ...

Iraq is sending firefighters, water tankers and other equipment to help battle forest blazes in coastal Syria, as a multinational effort to extinguish the flames enters a ninth day. Already crews from ...

Authorities say more than 15,000 hectares of forest were burned as scorching summer heat and left-over munitions fanned the ...

For the first time in 30 years, in 2024, some of the world's biggest spenders on aid and development cut funding. Now aid ...