Kurds, Syria and Aleppo
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Dozens of thousands of Kurds displaced from Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority Ashrafiyeh and Sheikh Maqsood neighborhoods are in urgent need of humanitarian aid. Kurdish aid organizations rush to provide food,
Deadly fighting between Kurdish forces and Syria's national army in Aleppo has led to new widespread displacement. As thousands flee amid shelling, can international mediators stop a full-scale war?
The Syrian army said it would push into the last Kurdish-held district of Aleppo city on Friday after Kurdish groups there rejected a government demand for their fighters to withdraw under a ceasefire deal.
Syria's Kurds are committed to agreements reached with the government, a senior official from their administration told AFP on Friday, despite days of violence in the northern city of Aleppo.
We have to rectify the history of mistreatment of our people and those who are saying that independence is not good. Our question to them is, if it’s not good for us, why is it good for you? Every day the regime is killing our people for nothing other ...
Kurdish forces faced their first major defeat in Iraq over the weekend, when militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized the towns of Sinjar, Zumar and Wana. The United Nations, citing local reports, estimated as many as 200,000 ...
Close aides to Saitama Governor Motohiro Ono were surprised by the apparent turnaround in his thinking about the Kurdish community in the prefecture.
The United States on Saturday urged the Syrian government and Kurdish authorities to return to negotiations after days of deadly clashes in the northern city of Aleppo.