Turkey's top diplomat on Saturday said Syrian Kurdish fighters essential for the United States in the fight against Islamic State (IS) extremists cannot be sheltered in Syria, in a phone call with ...
President Tayyip Erdogan views the SDF as a branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Kurdish group that now seeks greater political and cultural rights in Turkey. Erdogan believes that both ...
Iraqi authorities are working to exhume the remains of around 100 Kurdish women and children thought to have been killed in the 1980s under former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, three officials said.