Kurds in Cyprus participated in a protest in Nicosia on Sunday, demanding the termination of Turkey’s offensive against Rojava in north Syria, and stressing the need for the international ...

The Arab Spring of 2011 initially seemed to validate ... If sectarian tensions, Kurdish resistance or jihadist rivalries resurface, Turkey could face a resurgence of instability along its southern ...

When we think about Turkey, what usually comes to ... genocidal campaigns and massacres against the Kurds. Kurds carry banners as they protest, in the northeastern city of Qamishli, against ...

He had been dreaming of going back home ever since arriving in Turkey in the summer of 2014. To soothe his panic attacks in ...

The SDF said it had repelled "all the attacks from ... the Kurds created a semi-autonomous administration following the withdrawal of government forces during the civil war that began in 2011.

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

The Dersim massacre in 1938 saw as many as 70,000 killed in eastern Turkey under the Turkification ... burned themselves alive in protest. Rape and sexual abuse was rife in what was a systematic ...

The Syrian civil war, which started in 2011 ... 12, 2016, produced a swath of territory largely controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Arab and Kurdish militias, along ...

A Saudi official told AFP these are set to include a meeting of Arab officials and a wider gathering involving Turkey ... after 2011 as Assad cracked down on pro-democracy protesters and the ...

Maydani, Abdulrahman, and Ahmad were all students when protests erupted across Syria and the broader region in 2011. All three of ... notably Turkey, where Abdulrahman eventually settled along ...

Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

The bitter feud triggered conflicts in the Middle East for decades, well into the Arab Spring in 2011, when widespread protests ... Turkey, which had been funding the HTS, has its own interests in ...