The United States and Europe have been hesitant to lift sanctions on Syria before there is a clear political transition th ...

Syria's top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries Sunday called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions ...

Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his pioneering speech in late February. In his ...

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

Hundreds of women gathered Diyarbakır's İstasyon Square in a demonstration marking Women's Day. In response to a call from ...

Thousands of women took to the streets of Turkish cities Saturday to mark International Women’s Day, protesting inequality ...

Turkey on Thursday called on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to “immediately and unconditionally” disband and ...

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish security forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in the past week, the Turkish defense ministry said Thursday, even as the militants' imprisoned leader called on his group to ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...

Turkey on Thursday insisted the PKK and all groups allied with it must disarm and disband "immediately", a week after a ...

After the fall of Assad, many Syrians hope for a better future. But intense political and economic challenges risk derailing ...