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

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Syria’s new interim leader, meeting on Tuesday with the president of Turkey, thanked him for backing the rebel forces that ...

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Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was once aligned with al-Qaida, landed in Riyadh alongside his government's foreign minister, Asaad ...

Regime Change in Syria Has Iraqi Factions Backtracking on Push for US Withdrawal BAGHDAD (AP) — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider ...

(AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File) BAGHDAD— The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country ...

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Baghdad — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials ...