The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could start handing over its weapons "within days", a spokesman for Turkey's ruling AK ...

Kurdish National Congress led by President Masoud Barzani, DEM Party co-chair Tuncer Bakırhan told Kurdistan24. He hailed the ...

Trump Envoy for Syria to Meet with PM Barzani in ErbilERBIL — US special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack is expected to visit Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in the coming days in what ...

On November 11, Iraqis will head to the polls in their country’s sixth parliamentary elections since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. These elections are expected ...

Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin met with the Kurdistan Region’s top officials in Erbil on Tuesday to discuss the ...

I would not feel comfortable betting on any of these possibilities, and none are very reassuring. But it is not clear how much this matters. Syria’s new leadership, whatever its ambitions, will need ...

President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria gives the Syrian people and their new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, a chance to rebuild their great nation, with a focus on religious freedom,… ...

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The notorious Rukban displacement camp in the Syrian desert, a dark emblem of the country’s civil war, has closed, with the last remaining families returning to their hometowns.

In Europe, the process is less complicated. Last month, the European Council lifted sanctions on several Syrian companies operating in key sectors like oil production, agriculture, finance, ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...