Government forces have seized a strategic town and oil fields in northeastern Syria. The move on Sunday is part of an ongoing ...

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Syria's Kurdish fighters said Sunday that they agreed under a ceasefire to withdraw from Aleppo after days of fighting ...

A planned concert by the Kurdish folk band Koma Amed in İstanbul on Dec 20 was blocked just hours before it was set to begin by the Küçükçekmece District Governor’s Office. The group, whose members ...

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The Kurdistan Region of Iraq is seeing a tourism revival as foreign visitors praise improved infrastructure, strong safety, ...

New deadly clashes have occurred between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo. Tuesday's fighting came as efforts to merge the Kurdish fighters with ...

In 2000, Faegheh Atashin was able to leave Iran and perform in Canada, where she discovered that the decades of enforced ...

The family of a 23-year-old Iranian college student believes she was killed by a bullet fired by Iranian security forces.

Syrian government officials have held talks with the commander of the main Kurdish-led force over plans to merge it with the national army. State media reported Sunday that no "tangible results" ...

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