Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing — thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions are thought to be political and criminal.

Welcome back to Al-Monitor Israel.Israeli officials are divided over whether to seize the moment and pursue a security ...

In the past 18 months, huge geopolitical shifts and wars across the region have brought home the reality of conflict's ...

Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a ...

Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK's joint leaders told AFP on Friday ...

The relentless wildfires that have ravaged Syria’s coastal region for the past week have taken a heavy toll on the 68-year-old farmer from Latakia. Syria's worst drought in decades and strong winds ...

About 30 Kurdish PKK fighters have symbolically laid down arms in Iraqi Kurdistan, marking the start of a historic disarmament.

In case of abuse, From David Ben-Gurion to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s most consequential leaders have shared a common ...

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...