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The director of Survival International, Caroline Pearce, joins Here & Now to explain why her organization has spoken out against contacting the Sentinelese and other uncontacted tribes.
Syrian Kurdish families, displaced from their homes in the historically Kurdish-majority Afrin region during a 2018 offensive by Turkey, return to their villages in December. — Rami al SAYED ...
Three years ago, California’s powerful tribes poured more than $200 million into defeating Prop 27, an initiative from DraftKings and FanDuel that would have legalized online sports betting.
American Indian and Alaska Native tribes are fighting for equal governance and sovereignty over their own health data. (Kris Hanning/University of Arizona) When Stephanie Russo Carroll, a citizen of ...
This year’s Erbil Book Fair 2025 carries the distinctive slogan “The World Speaks Kurdish”. This theme celebrates the Kurdish language and its growing prominence, particularly acknowledging ...
ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Scores of U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters left two neighborhoods in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo Friday as part of a deal with the central government in Damascus ...
President Obama has not allowed U.S. Special Forces and forward air controllers to embed themselves in the Free Syrian Army, Iraqi security forces, Kurdish peshmerga, or in Sunni tribes when they ...
I am examining the future progress of the Kurdish Question and its consequences. The new Kurdish assertiveness is evident not only in Iraq but also in Syria, where the YPJ, a Kurdish militia ...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants are stoking ...
Joakim Medin of the daily Dagens ETC was detained as he arrived at Istanbul airport on Thursday and placed under arrest on Friday on charges of "membership in a terrorist organization" and "insulting ...
She is known for posing resistance to the Bashar al-Assad regime since 2011 when the war began. Mohammed Terko, a Kurdish Syrian who is based in Damascus, took oath as the education minister. However, ...
The Kurdish-led administration in northwestern Syria on Sunday rejected the legitimacy of the new national government formed by the coalition that toppled longtime autocrat Bashar al-Assad in ...