Damascus’s new rulers may be unwilling or unable to protect Syria’s minorities, and calls have arisen to carve sovereign ...

The head of an Alawite association has called on Zaza Kurds in Turkey to preserve and promote their mother tongue.At the ...

Nidal al-Shaar, the new economy minister, served briefly in Bashar al-Assad’s government in 2011 and 2012. Born in Aleppo, he was a professor of economics at the city’s university and has a ...

Kurds are estimated to comprise around 10 percent of the Iranian population, constituting approximately 8–12 million people. They are largely Sunni Muslim, while the vast majority of Iranians ...

NPR's Leil Fadel asks Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, whether Kurds in the semi-autonomous northwest region have a voice in the new government.

Scores of people have been killed in Syria's southern governorate of Suwayda after clashes began between local Sunni Bedouin ...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters, doubling down on a decentralised ...

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: From the U.S. presidential election to the war in Gaza, religion has played a big role in many news stories this year. The Religion News Association surveyed journalists who ...