Tensions have been building over government attempts to bring the Kurdish-led region in northeastern Syria under its authority. Kurdish leaders have so far resisted. By Carlotta Gall Reporting from ...

Armed drones and tanks in the streets of Sulaymaniyah, the second city of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, were a shocking sight in August in what was once the most stable part of Iraq. The ...

Iraq resumed on Saturday crude exports from the autonomous Kurdistan region, state media said, after a more than two-year halt over legal and technical disputes. Control over lucrative oil exports has ...

Forces of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) raided the private Assyrian Christian schools in the cities of Hasakah and Qamishli, shutting them down by force on Monday 29 September, several ...

Syria’s government has declared a ceasefire between its security forces and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo, after at least one person was killed and four people were injured in ...

DAMASCUS: A cautious calm set in Tuesday morning in neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria after overnight clashes between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters. The violence came ...

The Syrian army redeployed along frontlines with US-backed Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, the defence ministry said on Monday, amid rising tensions. The move, it said, was aimed at preventing ...

A cautious calm spread Tuesday in neighborhoods of Aleppo in northern Syria after overnight clashes between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters. The violence came as tensions grow between the ...

Syrian army, U.S.-backed SDF reach ceasefire in Aleppo after clashes Deal followed army redeployment along frontlines with SDF March integration deal strained as both sides trade blame for stalling ...

The Iraqi Kurdistan Region remains without a government nearly a year since parliamentary elections were held in the region. The influential parties have been unable to agree on a cabinet lineup, ...

A member of Syria’s internal security forces was killed and three were injured, along with civilians, in Aleppo clashes. Graduates of Syria's General Security Service under the country's new ...