The Syrian government says it closed one of the largest camps that housed ISIS fighters and their families. It is the latest example of transformations in Syria, from how it confronts ISIS to whether ...

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Kurds in Iran are viewing the current turmoil with caution after decades of repression under both the Islamic regime and the monarchy. The Kurdish flag. Credit: Sarchia Khursheed / Wikimedia Commons ...

Ms. Aydintasbas is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the institution’s Turkey Project. Fighting this month between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic ...

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Syria is at a “major turning point”, said Noura Doukhi in L’Orient-Le Jour (Beirut). When the current president Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former leader of the Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), ...

Families and loved ones held up portraits of missing persons during a demonstration in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on January 24, 2026. BILAL SECKIN/MEI/SIPA The convoy of cars sped along the muddy roads, ...

The Kurds are one of the world’s largest peoples without a state, making up sizable minorities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Their century-old fight for rights, autonomy, and even an independent ...

HASAKAH, Syria, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Syrian government security forces deployed in a Kurdish-controlled city in the northeast on Monday, a first step towards implementing a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal ...

One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem to be old flat-screen TVs, ...