Tensions Build in Syria Between New Leaders and Kurdish-Led Militia
The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...
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'We want peace but have little hope' say Turkey's Kurds
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. - ...
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Atatürk’s Ankara
This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...
Kansas City weather: Winter storm bringing heavy accumulating snow, roads are snow-packed
TODAY IS A FIRST ALERT WEATHER ALERT DAY FOR AN ONGOING WINTER STORM COMING UP. GET YOU PREPARED FOR WHEN THE HEAVY SNOW WILL ARRIVE AND WHEN IT WILL END IN YOUR COMMUNITY. AS SNOW FALLS THROUGHOUT ...
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Hamdan bin Mohammed meets with Prime Minister of Kurdistan Region of Iraq
H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of the UAE, today met with Masrour Barzani, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan ...
Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict
Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...
Kurds in the new Syria want to preserve the cultural rights they gained in years of war
Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...
Trump wants a deal for Ukraine’s natural resources as ‘payback’ in exchange for aid stopping Russia attack: envoy
Ukraine is home to roughly 5% of the world’s mineral resources, with rich deposits of titanium, uranium, iron, manganese and ...
AP PHOTOS: A tour through northeastern Syria in a moment of uncertainty
An Apache helicopter patrolled the outskirts of the city of Hassakeh as a heavily loaded pickup truck, filled with displaced ...
In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich region is left in limbo
Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.
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Türkiye works to ‘bolster’ Syria amid military base rumors
It’s too soon to discuss setting up new military bases in Syria, Ankara says but assured concrete steps are underway to help ...