A drive to recruit Kurds and religious minorities to the Syrian government's General Security Forces in the northern area of ...

NPR's Leil Fadel asks Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, whether Kurds in the semi-autonomous northwest region have a voice in the new government.

For the first time in four decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, is laying down its arms and says it will end its insurgency against Turkey. The separatist group’s disbandment ...

Following deadly clashes against the Druze and Alawites minorities, and amid the planned dissolution of the Kurdish PKK, Syria's Kurds are at a critical juncture. In the aftermath of the latest ...

Turks and Kurds are rubbing their eyes in disbelief. Mr Bahceli and Mr Ocalan, both in their late 70s, had been sworn enemies as long as anyone can remember.

Young Kurdish men, including members of religious minorities, recently signed up to join the Syrian government’s General Security forces in Afrin, an area in the country’s north from which Kurds were ...