Clashes between Turkey-backed rebel groups and Kurdish-led forces have been ongoing since the initial years of the civil war, with periodic flare-ups still occurring. Syrians rose up against the ...
ANKARA, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for this week's attack on Turkish defence company TUSAS that killed five people in ...
Turkish airstrikes hit 47 targets in northern Iraq and Syria in retaliation of a deadly attack in the capital that it’s blamed on Kurdish militants. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said both ass ...
Photo: IHA/Associated Press Turkey launched airstrikes overnight against what it said were sites linked to a Kurdish separatist group in Iraq and Syria, hours after an armed assault on a Turkish ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Attackers set off explosives and opened fire Wednesday at Turkey’s state-run aerospace and defense company ...
Turkey has blamed Kurdish militant group the PKK for the attack and has launched strikes on its sites in Syria and Iraq. This afternoon, armed gunmen set off an explosion and fired shots in an ...
I am examining the future progress of the Kurdish Question and its consequences. The new Kurdish assertiveness is evident not only in Iraq but also in Syria, where the YPJ, a Kurdish militia ...
The capital city, Erbil, also called Hawler in Kurdish, is an important and ancient city. It has a large population of 900,000 and is shaped like a large wheel, with roads that form rings around ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The US ambassador to Iraq on Saturday called on Kurdistan Region’s political parties not to seek intimidation of voters during Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
In the upcoming elections, the KDP and PUK will face off again. The KDP is focusing on nationalist rhetoric and appealing to Kurdish pride, while the PUK is positioning itself as a reformist ...
The parties’ inability to find an agreement about the minority seats meant that the electoral process was taken out of Kurdish hands. The federal government took charge in early 2024, after a ruling ...
Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish activist and humanitarian worker from Iran, is at risk of execution. A Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced her to death in July 2024 after an unfair trial. Her conviction ...