How these two actors—HTS and the SDF—navigate their divergent interests and goals will shape Syria’s future political map. In the days ... Arab, while Kurds, Turkmen, Circassians, and ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

This association is so ingrained that it becomes difficult to make the case for the Kurds. There are roughly 20 million Kurds in Turkey, with zero recognition that they even exist. Zero.

Mothers can now give children Kurdish names. The Kurdish language is taught in schools. The new year, Nowruz, can be celebrated openly. The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without ...

The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without a state of their own, have been feeling some control over their lives and want to make that permanent with a new government in power.