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Kurds

Kurdish militant groups are spread across parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Photo: DW

Iran war: Why is Trump blaming the Kurds?

Donald Trump says Kurdish forces kept US weapons meant for Iranian protesters, allegations Kurdish leaders categorically deny. Analysts say the president is scapegoating the groups to make up for...

An explosion caused by a projectile impact in Tel Aviv in the early hours of Sunday (1 March 2026) after Iran launched missiles into Israel, following the strikes carried out by Israel and the US on Iran on Saturday. File Photo: Gideon Markowicz/Reuters

Syria's Kurds caution Iran's Kurds against aligning with US against Tehran

Fighters from the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, are pictured near the border with Iran in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, in the outskirts of Sulaimaniya, Iraq, June 21, 2025. Photo: Ako Rasheed/Reuters

Inside the plan to support Iranian Kurds amid US-Israel operations

Syrian army personnel look on from a military vehicle deployed inside the city of Tabqa, after the withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in Tabqa, Syria, January 18, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Karam al-Masri

Syria government, Kurdish forces agree sweeping integration to end clashes

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa delivers a speech on the first anniversary of Bashar al-Assad's fall, in Damascus, Syria December 8, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi/File Photo

Syria's Sharaa grants Kurdish Syrians citizenship, language rights for first time: SANA

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria,January 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Kurds, women must be included in Syria's transition: European ministers

A member of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands along a street, after rebels seized the capital and ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Hasakah, Syria, December 11, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Orhan Qereman/File Photo

Syrian Kurdish groups on the back foot as power balance shifts

Sinan Ogan, presidential candidate of Turkey's right-wing nationalist Ata Alliance in the May 14 Turkish presidential elections, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Ankara, Turkey, May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman

For Turkey runoff, potential kingmaker draws red line at concessions to Kurds

French police and firefighters secure a street after gunshots were fired killing two people and injuring several in a central district of Paris, France, December 23, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

France's Kurds gather to protest after Paris killings

FILE PHOTO: A fighter of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) holds her weapon as they announce the destruction of Islamic State's control of land in eastern Syria, at al-Omar oil field in Deir Al Zor, Syria March 23, 2019. REUTERS/Rodi Said/File Photo

Syria Kurds halt joint ops with US-led coalition after Turkish raids -spokesman

FILE PHOTO: Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan holds a news conference during the NATO summit at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 14, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool/File Photo

Sweden's Kurds fear they may pay price for NATO bid as Turkey fumes

Members of Syrian Democratic Forces transport a suicide car bomb used by the Islamic State militants in Raqqa, Syria October 1, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

Kurds say United States agreed to stay in Syria

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and his Azeri counterpart Zakir Hasanov inspect troops during Turkish-Azeri joint military exercises in the eastern Kars province, Turkey February 11, 2021. Arif Akdogan/Turkish Defense Ministry/Handout via REUTERS

Turkey says militants executed 13 in Iraq, US condemns