Nearly 40,000 people, including former IS members and their families, are held in Syria’s al-Hol camp. With USAID aid at risk ...

In the West, he is most often depicted as the antagonist – if a noble and revered one – to the crusader king, Richard the ...

The founder of the P.K.K., a guerrilla organization that has been fighting an insurgency against Turkey for decades, has ...

The Assad dictatorship is out, but Syria’s economy is in chaos after a civil war and recent policy shifts. The situation is ...

According to the IDF, Mohammed Mahdi Ali Shaneen "was a significant terrorist" in Hezbollah's unit active in the Beqaa area ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish group PKK, has called on his movement to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, ...

An ancient town in Syria is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used ...

The snaking tunnels beneath Kobani hold no mysteries for Commander Zanarin Kobani of the YPJ, the women’s unit of the Kurdish ...

President Trump has streamlined the process for the US military to carry out airstrikes and raids against terrorist targets ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of l ...

Mexico, which has only one gun store, has claimed that between 70% and 90% of all guns recovered from Mexican crime scenes ...

While Ocalan's call raises hopes for ending decades of conflict with Turkey, questions remain about the future of Kurdish ...