One year into his rule Syria's leader has won over Trump and much of the West, but at home people know his weaknesses ...

Aided by her mother, Mahtab Amiri, who coordinated her escape, she left the country with Erfaan and was driven to Iran. From ...

Firebase Studio integrates frames and motion, then exports WebP assets, helping beginners create a clean, animated, ...

In northeast Syria, Kurdish women are using music and performance to assert cultural identity, promote female empowerment and ...

The strike is the latest in a string of attacks on energy infrastructure in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, which some regional authorities have privately blamed on Iran-affiliated militias. By Erika ...

The first year of Donald Trump’s second term turned domestic and international politics on its head. The president withdrew America from the Paris accord on climate change, deployed the armed forces ...

Traffic through the Red Sea is recovering after the Gaza ceasefire and a Houthi pause in attacks, but persistent security ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish parliamentary delegation held talks Monday with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group, as part of an ongoing peace initiative to end a ...

Rwanga Foundation extends rural electrification effort as survivors call for long-term support A Kurdish village attacked with chemical weapons in 1987 now has a continuous electricity supply after a ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The United States inaugurated a massive new consulate compound Wednesday in Irbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region. The move highlighted Washington’s ...