Kurdish controlled syria

Petty clashes over a sign in Syria risk snowballing into real conflict

Protesters in Hasakah and also in Qamishli object to the removal of Kurdish from official signs on government buildings.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
The debris of a destroyed building and a motorbike litters the ground following a Jordanian strike on reported drugs and weapons storage facilities in the village of Arman, in the southern Druze-majority province of Sweida, of which many parts are outside the control of Damascus on May 3, 2026.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa hold a press conference at the Chancellery, in Berlin, Germany March 30, 2026.

EU to restore Syria relations, strengthen trade and security ties, document shows

Syria, which had most Western sanctions lifted at the end of last year, is seeking broader integration into the international community under interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

|ByREUTERS
Security for the protest is provided by the local Asayish (Kurdish Police) during a demonstration for Kurdish rights on February 10, 2026 in Qamishli, Syria. The protests called for the protection of Kurdish rights and the achievements of the Rojava revolution as the region

Israel's national security dependent on supporting Kurdish cause, Kurdish leader says

“National security is achieved only through support for the cause. We are talking about a new Middle East with four key countries: Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. The Kurds are in all of them."

|ByDR. EDY COHEN
Members of the Kurdish community and other protesters attend a demonstration against recent military clashes between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces, in Berlin, Germany, January 24, 2026.

Kurds’ monumental role in defeating ISIS deserves recognition - analysis

As the anti-ISIS Coalition embraces Syria, the Kurdish role in the war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria also deserves recognition.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Kurds are the Evangelicals of the Muslim world

Why can’t we just listen to the Kurds?

OCTOBER 10, 2019ByMIKE EVANS
Iraqi Kurds wave flags of Iraqi Kurdistan during a demonstration

Rely on no one

Great and unmatched wisdom?

OCTOBER 10, 2019ByJPOST EDITORIAL
KURDISH MEMBERS of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan hike through the mountains from Iraq to Iran.

Turkey tells U.N. Security Council its Syria operation to be 'proportionate'

Turkey justified its action under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which covers an individual or collective right to self-defense against armed attack.

OCTOBER 10, 2019ByREUTERS
A view of areas where ISIS is still active, from the Kurdish Peshmerga frontline on Mount Qarachogh.

Turkey tells U.N. Security Council its Syria operation to be 'proportionate'

Turkey justified its action under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which covers an individual or collective right to self-defense against armed attack.

OCTOBER 10, 2019ByREUTERS
A view of areas where ISIS is still active, from the Kurdish Peshmerga frontline on Mount Qarachogh.

‘Look, you can see ISIS down there’: How ISIS operates in Iraq today

"The mountain is desert khaki, and in the sunset it has a bit of haze around it from oil fires in the distance. It’s surreal and beautiful."

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A view of areas where ISIS is still active, from the Kurdish Peshmerga frontline on Mount Qarachogh.

U.S. hoping its security gamble with Turkey in Syria will pay off

On Saturday, the sixth aerial overflight by the US and Turkey took place in eastern Syria.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters are seen near the city of Afrin, Syria

Syrian rebels say ready to back Turkish-led operation in northeast

"There are over 14,000 fighters who are ready to engage in combat operations east of the Euphrates alongside Turkish forces," Major Youssef Hamoud told Reuters.

AUGUST 5, 2019ByREUTERS
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga, in a photo taken in 2015.

Ghassemlou the Kurd and Iran’s bloody diplomacy

The terror of Ghassemlou and his colleagues and hundreds of other members of the Iranian opposition encompass important lessons and revelations about the current climate of tension.

JULY 20, 2019ByHALMAT PALANI
A Syrian Kurd refugee in Iraq 300

British woman who fought ISIS to be featured in documentary

Campbell was killed in March 2018 in Syria when she was fighting for the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units [YPJ], an anarchist and a feminist activist, her body was never recovered.

JUNE 30, 2019ByHAGAY HACOHEN
YPJ fighters hug after a fight

Kurdistan region still divided after 29 years

JUNE 27, 2019ByFARHANG FARAYDOON NAMDAR
KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC Party leader Masoud Barzani shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote during parliamentary elections in the semi-autonomous region on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq, on September 30.