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 ...

Kurdish groups in Iran are moving to form a unified front and platform in opposition to the regime amid protests and US-Iran tensions.

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BEIRUT (AP) — Police in Syria’s beleaguered self-ruled Kurdish areas have rounded up hundreds of young men to press them into military service recently made compulsory, activists and Kurdish officials ...

Robert Leutheuser is an independent cultural photographer who has dedicated himself to documenting community life in the Middle East, focusing on Kurdish peoples. Perhaps most notably, his work has ...

Negotiations have collapsed between the Syrian president and the chief of the country’s Kurdish-led forces, a Kurdish official told AFP, as the army deployed reinforcements to flashpoint areas in the ...

An Iraqi Kurdish man was fatally stabbed in İstanbul on Aug 31, with his family claiming he was targeted for speaking his native language. Hakim Lokman, 45, from Duhok in the Kurdistan region, was ...

General Matthew B. Ridgway flew to Turkey to inspect the easternmost outpost of his NATO command. He conferred with the U.S. military mission in Ankara, inspected units of the tough, well-trained ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young Kurdish men line up to sign up to join Syrian government's General Security forces at a police station in Afrin, Syria, an ...