The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

The government in Damascus envisions a “peaceful” path to exerting power over the Kurdish northeast and not a military one, Syria’s defense minister told the Washington Post in an interview published ...

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

ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

According to Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra, "the issue needs some time between the US administration and the new Syrian government" ...