Nowruz is a cultural symbol of unity, joy, peace and love
DR. MAJID RAFIZADEH March 20, 2023 Nowruz, which means “new day” in the Persian language, is the most important festival of the year in Iran. It is also one of […]
Turkey-Syria quake death toll tops 25,000
By AFP – Feb 11,2023 – JORDAN TIMES This aerial view shows collapsed buildings during the ongoing rescue operation in Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the first 7.8-magnitude tremor on Monday, in southeastern […]
Three dead, four injured after shooting at Kurdish center in Paris
1 / 2 French riot police run to disperse protesters during a clash after three people were killed in a shooting in Paris on Dec. 23, 2022, (AFP) 2 / 2 News […]
Selahattin Demirtaş explains ‘Kurdish question for beginners’
Renowned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş has penned an opinion piece for several news sites, including Gazete Duvar, from Edirne Prison about the Kurdish problem in Turkey and its historical development. […]
Erdogan, Kurds should talk to each other rather than Assad
DR. DANIA KOLEILAT KHATIB August 17, 2022 Short Url Protests took place in the northwest of Syria after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusgolu last week declared that he had briefly […]
Erdogan presses case against Syria’s Kurds at Tehran summit despite Khamenei rebuke
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meet in Tehran on July 19, 2022. (WANA handout via REUTERS) Short Url https://arab.news/9gx9s AFP REUTERS July […]
How US diplomacy can provide a solution in northeast Syria
DR. DANIA KOLEILAT KHATIB June 08, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/64gme Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again raised the issue of an incursion into Syria. Such operations are a […]
Children of Syria’s Al-Hol camp inmates languish in political limbo
1 / 8 Children live and die in horrendous conditions in the Syrian camps, and it leaves them very vulnerable to radicalization in the face of the potential resurgence in Daesh […]
Nowruz will not be erased: how Iranians are preserving Persian new year celebrations
Perspectives Kourosh Ziabari 22 Mar, 2022 With so much global despair and uncertainty, Nowruz celebrations should be seen as a period of rejuvenation. Instead, the Iranian state has attempted to […]
Closing the gap: Syrian refugees in Kurdistan deserve better work opportunities
Perspectives Caroline Zullo 15 Feb, 2022 While the KRG has established policies for Syrian refugees in Kurdistan to live and work legally, these provisions have not translated into sustainable livelihoods […]
Why Yazidi survivors of Daesh enslavement and their children are stuck in limbo in Iraq
Children believed to be from the Yazidi community, who were captured by Daesh fighters, are pictured after being evacuated from the embattled Daesh holdout of Baghouz. (AFP/File Photo) Short Url […]
The trip could have killed them. But people fleeing economic wreckage in the Middle East say they’d do it 100 times over
By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Updated 0808 GMT (1608 HKT) December 12, 2021 (CNN)Four-year-old Azhi hobbles across a makeshift migrant center on the Polish-Belarusian border. Grabbing his mother’s hand for support, he carefully […]
Why Turkey should swap military strikes for water diplomacy
DR. DANIA KOLEILAT KHATIB October 20, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/zrxue Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has voiced his anger over the killing of two Turkish policemen by Kurdish forces in […]
How viable is the Kurds’ autonomous territory in northeast Syria?
Members of the Syrian Kurdish internal security services known as “Asayish” march in a procession ahead of the body of their fallen comrade Khalid Hajji. (AFP/File Photo) Short Url https://arab.news/g3uwj […]
Countries ‘abandoning thousands of Syrian children in desert limbo’
Syrian children sit on the ground at the Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp. (AFP/File) Short Url https://arab.news/84knj Charity says 62 children died of various causes in northeastern Syria camp this year AFP […]
Strengthening British-Kurdish ties
Opinion: Strengthening British-Kurdish ties GARY KENT rudow.net A+A-For years, the starting point for many Kurds in assessing relations with the UK was Sykes-Picot, the agreement of 1916 between Britain and […]
Iraqi Kurdistan may be new arena for Turkish-French rivalry
SINEM CENGIZ September 10, 2021 21:39253 Short Url https://arab.news/v9d4t Turkey and France this summer pledged to ease the tensions between them and open a fresh page in relations, but new areas […]
Kurdish office in Geneva causes diplomatic headache
Switzerland has come under pressure from Syria and Turkey after Syrian Kurds opened a “representation office” in Geneva. Damascus has sent a letter of protest to Bern, and in Ankara […]
The opening of a Syrian Kurdish ‘representation office’ in Geneva stirs tensions
The autonomous entity in north-eastern Syria, unrecognised by any state, is seeking to build relations with international players in Geneva – where Syrian peace talks, from which it is excluded, […]
Eight murders in a month in Syria camp: Kurds
A member of Kurdish securiy forces stands guard as Syrian Kurdish authorities set out to hand over Russian orphans born to parents linked to Daesh to a Russian delegation for […]