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 the post-Assad transition ...

After dinner with the Kurdish family with whom we are staying, we sit down in front of the TV. The host flicks through the ...

Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan, the world's most hunted man, has burnt copies of the Quran outside the Turkish ...

Iraq parliament approves compensation plan ... both Islamic State and Kurdish militants in the region. Turkey says joint fight needed against Kurdish militants, Islamic State in the region Middle ...

The Trump administration is considering three potential areas for the absorption of refugee Gazans after President Donald ...

Moscow flat bomb kills pro-Putin paramilitary leader as Kyiv strikes energy plants - A pro-Russian separatist, known to be a ...

Syria’s new defense minister addressed calls for the liberation of “occupied” areas of the country, the presence of foreign ...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is Europe's longest-serving head of government – and the most polarizing. In an NZZ ...

For some time, the debate over Iran's potential membership in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has polarized both public opinion and the political class within the country.

The sudden collapse of the long-standing Assad regime in Syria last December unleashed a wave of trouble for most Syrians, ...

Syria’s new interim leader, meeting on Tuesday with the president of Turkey, thanked him for backing the rebel forces that ...