Al-Monitor's top articles of 2024 delivered exclusive reporting on the Middle East's tumultuous year. From Assad's fall in ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A group of mountaineers from Van province recently climbed the nearby Mount Hayal.The mountain, ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkish foreign minister said on Thursday that the Kurdish-led forces should not keep the Islamic State (ISIS) prisoners and their families, calling on the new authority in ...

Ankara is emerging as a winner after Assad’s fall, deploying influence in Damascus. Erdogan is consolidating a position of ...

Authorities in Iraq's second largest Kurdistan city have banned four organisations accused of affiliation with the PKK.

The group is looking to exploit Syria’s uncertain future to rebuild its influence—half a decade after U.S.-led forces broke ...

Stunning reports of positive exchanges between the long imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the ...

"It is a natural right, and so far there is no decision in the KRG and Iraq to prevent political parties from opening their ...

The group whose flag was found after a New Orleans truck-ramming attack has never stopped orchestrating and inspiring acts of ...

The ‘transitional’ administration at Damascus looks like it is going to stay a while — that’s good news if your last name is ...

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized ...

The talks were al-Sharaa's first with Kurdish commanders since an opposition alliance spearheaded by al-Sharaa's "Hayat ...