Kurdish Disarmament Reshapes Dynamics in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran—but Uncertainty Remains
After more than forty years of armed struggle, a Kurdish-linked group, the PKK, in northern Iraq has begun…
Syria: PKK fighters lay down their arms marking a ‘irreversible turning point’ • FRANCE 24 English
Syria: PKK fighters lay down their arms marking a ‘irreversible turning point’ • FRANCE 24 English [Music] celebrations…
Syria Kurdish forces say 3 personnel dead in IS attack
Members of the Kurdish Asayish security forces in northeastern Syria in January 2023. [Getty] Kurdish security forces in…
Seeking recognition: Syrian Kurds ready for Damascus talks
2025-05-30T16:31:04+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News/ On Friday, the Kurdish National Council (KNC) in…
The sudden death of Kurdish separatism in Turkey
ISTANBUL – The world’s longest-running armed insurgency has come to an abrupt end. Some four decades after orchestrating…
A Pivotal Moment for the Kurdish Question
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(click to enlarge) The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), founded in 1978…
ISIL group kills five Kurdish fighters in attack in eastern Syria | ISIL/ISIS News
Syria’s Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces described the attack as ‘one of the deadliest’ against it in a while.…
Stars are aligned for Trump’s troop withdrawal from Syria
The blitzkrieg offensive which ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 has sparked an explosive political and…
Erdoğan’s Kurdish Initiative & the Logic of Arresting His Opponent
The shocking – though arguably not surprising – arrest of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main rival, Istanbul…
Turkey’s Erdoğan meets pro-Kurdish MPs as they seek to end 40-year insurgency
ADVERTISEMENT Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has held a first meeting with pro-Kurdish politicians who are working to…
What the Kurds Reintegration Really Says About Syria’s Future
Although the formal announcement of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reintegration into the Syrian state has faded from…
Reshaping Turkish Politics: Erdogan’s Bet on a Kurdish Opposition?
Amid the crises in the Middle East, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and Trump’s return to the White House,…