Kurdish New Year, in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, Friday March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) A child holds a flag ...

In Istanbul on 27 February, Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, commonly known as the PKK, called on the organisation to dissolve itself and its militants to abandon ...

Mar 25, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Alyse Burnside The Nation spoke with the author No Fault, a genre-bending examination of marriage and divorce that is one-part cultural history and one-part memoir.

The decision of the PKK leader has also influenced the SDF and the Syrian Kurdish militias. Dissatisfaction and lack of support from Arab tribes in the northeast region. Tribalism is the primary form ...

The declaration, signed into law on Thursday, establishes a five-year transitional period and follows the toppling of Bashar al-Assad's repressive government by Islamist-led rebels after nearly 14 ...

John Nichols is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. He has written, cowritten, or edited over a dozen books on topics ranging from histories of American socialism and the Democratic ...

City St George's, University of London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Public sector workers in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, have ...

Syria’s interim leader has struck a deal to merge the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish group that controls the nation’s northeast ... Kurdistan Workers Party flag and pictures of its ...

The Syrian interim government signed an agreement on Monday with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that govern the de facto autonomous regions in the north and north-east of the country.

SDF commander Mazloum Abdi (L) signed the deal alongside interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) A Kurdish-led militia ... have never obtained a permanent nation state. Syria's Kurds, which make ...

The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, signed a deal with the Damascus government on Monday to join Syria's new state ...