DEM Party launches new peace initiative, seeking talks with Erdoğan & jailed PKK leader Öcalan after meeting Parliament ...

Several Kurdish politicians received prison sentences a year ago for allegedly organizing the deadly 2014 protests.

(NPA) An airstrike in the countryside of Kobanî, a Kurdish city in Syria’s Aleppo province, has killed nine civilians from the same family, including seven children, according to the UK-based Syrian ...

The challenge facing Kobani is to navigate an end state where he can defend Kurdish gains over the past 12 years and consolidate them through outreach to Syria’s new leaders while accommodating Turkey ...

Mazlum Kobani, whose Kurdish-led force fought the Islamic State in Syria, fears that a complete United States withdrawal could endanger his people and allow the jihadists to regroup.

KOBANI, Syria (Reuters) - A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani, a town besieged by Islamic State for months, and where the tide turned against the ...

Fighters from the P.K.K., however, assisted its Syrian affiliate, the Y.P.G., and the Iraqi peshmerga in the fight against ISIS, coming to the defense of Kobani when Turkish forces did not.

And while there are many ISIS battlefields in both Syria and Iraq, Kobani is within sight from the Turkish border – which means Western media and the world could see the magnitude of the fighting.

Kobani has been a coveted prize for ISIS, which has been on a murderous campaign to establish an Islamic state across parts of Syria and Iraq. The city sits on the border with Turkey and would ...

The battle for Kobani, a predominantly Kurdish town known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic, became a focal point for the U.S.-led air campaign against Islamic State in Syria. The Syrian Kurds, who also ...

The battlefield success is a major conquest both for Syria's embattled Kurds and the U.S.-led coalition, whose American coordinator had predicted that ISIS would "impale itself" on Kobani.

Kurdish fighters have taken the Syrian city of Kobani from ISIS’ grip after 112 days of fighting with the Sunni extremist group, multiple sources say.