Sackings of mayors and multiple arrests threaten to torpedo a tentative peace deal with the Kurds – and Turkey’s president is doing this on purpose, experts claim.

The report came about a month after the UN human rights chief said Iran had executed 901 prisoners in 2024. Volker Turk said ...

While Syrians around the world are celebrating the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, they are still cautious about what comes next.

Turkey’s ruling AKP views the fall of Assad in Syria as an opportunity to project power across the region. But the ...

Turkish police have detained 282 suspects accused of ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, militant group, ...

Turkey has detained 282 people in a nationwide swoop on those with suspected "terror" ties, the interior minister said Tuesday, despite a parallel government bid to end the bloody four-decade ...

Political party members, journalists and activists are among the detained in an investigation targeting the Peoples’ ...

ISIS wrecked 80 percent of public infrastructure and 70 percent of civilian homes in Sinjar City and surrounding areas.

A Turkish opposition party delegation has arrived in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region against the backdrop of peace ...

Iraqi Kurdistan President Nechirvan Barzani met with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani on the sidelines of the Munich ...

Turkey on Saturday removed another elected pro-Kurdish provincial mayor over convictions on terrorism-related charges and appointed a state official in his place, the interior ministry said.

Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan that could advance peace efforts, but says he has little hope. - ...