Northeast Syria is rapidly changing hands, and with it the country's fragile balance of power. For more than a decade, Kurdish authorities governed this region with a high degree of autonomy. Now, ...

Syrians vote in an earlier round of elections in Ras al Ain and Tel Abyad in October 2025. (Syrian Arab News Agency) The elections are the latest round of an electoral process that began in October ...

Syria had already held types of limited elections in other areas of Syria last year. However, areas outside government ...

Abandoned by allies and pressured by Turkey, Syria’s Kurds were forced to surrender autonomy to Damascus.

QAMISHLI, Syria March 8 (Reuters) - Kurdish residents of northeast Syria warned Iran's Kurds against aligning with the U.S. to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in ...

AL BASOUTA, Syria (AP) — Abdul Rahman Omar fled his village in the Afrin district in northern Syria eight years ago as a Turkish offensive against Kurdish fighters swept across the area. Now he is ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — The former dividing line between Syrian government territory and Syrian Kurdish forces — a landmark previously approached with caution in this north eastern city — is now a busy ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Days into the United States and Israel’s war against Iran, Trump officials and Kurdish leaders began openly musing about whether Iran’s Kurdish minority should seize on the dire ...