Organizers of a national conference to chart Syria’s political future say it will include all segments of Syrian society ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish opposition parties on Thursday slammed the exclusion of Kurds from a top committee tasked ...

Armed groups refusing to submit to the will of Syria's new government will be excluded from a national conference to discuss ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Aid workers and camp officials - led by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led force that helps run a ...

Groups that refuse to lay down their arms and submit to the defence ministry's authority will play no part in a national ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

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The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

French President Emmanuel Macron offers to back Syria’s interim government in potential partnership with the U.S.-led ...

But that depends on Syria’s new leaders, and the outcome of an ongoing conflict between the Kurds and Turkish-backed rebels that’s been overshadowed by the dramatic shift from Assad rule.

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during ...