The Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria houses thousands of suspected Islamic State group members and their families. — Delil SOULEIMAN Syrian Kurdish forces said Wednesday they thwarted an ...

AFRIN, Syria (AP) — Young Kurdish men, including members of religious minorities, recently signed up to join the Syrian government’s General Security forces in Afrin, an area in the country’s north ...

AFRIN, Syria — Young Kurdish men, including members of religious minorities, recently signed up to join the Syrian government’s General Security forces in Afrin, an area in the country’s north from ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Iraq approved a plan for its semi-autonomous Kurdish region to transfer oil to Baghdad, a step toward resuming exports that have been halted for more than two years. The Kurdistan Regional Government ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in ...

On June 6, a group of parliamentarians within Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presented Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru with a new immigration policy proposal. Under the title “Aiming for ...

FOR much of the past century, as the Kurds dreamed of autonomy in Turkey and the Middle East, armed groups drove the agenda. Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the largest such group, the Kurdistan ...

The head of a dissident Iranian Kurdish movement has told Newsweek his group is urging the United States to foster contacts with opposition factions in the Islamic Republic to undermine and ultimately ...

They’ve proven themselves to be one of America’s most reliable partners in the Middle East — but the Kurdish people still have no real homeland of their own. As Masrour Barzani, the prime minister of ...