Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Abdi and others point out that the Kurds played an important role in defeating the Islamic State group as it rampaged across Syria and neighboring Iraq for years during Syria’s civil war.

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five ... in the northeast enclave they carved out during the country's civil war.

tries to consolidate control and begin rebuilding after nearly 14 years of civil war. Mazloum Abdi, commander of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the main Kurdish-led force, said the ...

PHOTOS: Kurds in the new Syria want to preserve the cultural rights they gained in years of war The new authorities, however, are allied with the Turkish-backed armed groups that launched an ...