a day after they raised the Kurdistan flag during a spontaneous reception for security forces affiliated with the new leadership in Damascus, according to a local human rights monitor.

The ministry also released photos showing locals welcoming the Syrian forces with both Syrian and Kurdistan flags. Ahmed Hassan, the head of the local council for the Kurdish National Council ...

Pro-Kurdish Turkish lawmakers conveyed a message on Sunday to Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani from Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), who is expected ...

The Turkish delegation, which included two DEM lawmakers who met Ocalan, visited Barzani near Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, and conveyed a "message" to him from the ...

FILE - A Kurdish man and a woman wearing a T-shirt with the Kurdish flag printed on it ride their bikes in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah in the autonomous Kurdish region, July 21, 2009. Share ...

The delegation led by Sirri Sureyya Onder and Pervin Buldan, two senior officials with the pro-Kurdish People’s Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, in Turkey, met with Masoud Barzani ...

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

The delegation led by Sirri Sureyya Onder and Pervin Buldan, two senior officials with the pro-Kurdish People’s Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, in Turkey, met with Masoud Barzani ...