A standout at the World Cup, Deniz Undav is playing for Germany while representing his Yazidi and Kurdish heritage. Undav has scored three goals and made two assists, placing him ...

A convicted people smuggler, once described as "the godfather" of the French migrant camps, is living in Leicestershire and ...

An explosive device was detonated Thursday in a popular cafe in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing at least nine people, ...

For two and a half decades, whenever the Turkish government had a falling out with the United States and Europe, analysts frantically began worrying that the West had “lost” Turkey. It happened first ...

The United States and Iran are preparing to finalise a peace deal that would end their war – at least for the time being – as well as Israel’s bombing of Lebanon. Many key details remain to be ...

Eva Maria Michelmann vanished in Syria in January as government forces advanced on Kurdish fighters in the northeast. The German government last week said it was ...

The Kurds are one of the world’s largest peoples without a state, making up sizable minorities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Their century-old fight for rights, autonomy, and even an independent ...

In an effort to bring about the fall of the Iranian regime, the Mossad spy agency, working with the CIA, carried out an initiative to arm Kurdish militias with weapons seized in conflicts with Hamas ...

US President Donald Trump says he “disagreed” with the decision to send weapons to Kurdish militants in Iraq in order to try and overthrow the Iranian regime toward the beginning of the war. Numerous ...

An overview and commentary explaining the history and key issues behind the Kurdish situation. Pitt allegedly rejected Jolie reconciliation as twins near name change Senate fails to advance war powers ...

While many of the World Cup’s competing nations are wracked by social divisions, some of their teams offer strikingly positive examples of how players from different backgrounds and religious faiths ...