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Ocalan

أكراد العراق يقدمون يد العون لزعيم حزب العمال الكردستاني في مفاوضات السلام مع تركيا

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Kurds hold the edges of large banners depicting Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan during a demonstration of several thousand people from all around Europe to mark the 26th anniversary of the arrest of PKK founder and to demand his liberation in Strasbourg, Eastern France, on Feb. 15, 2025.

اعتقالات جماعية في تركيا مع سعي أردوغان إلى التقرب من الأكراد وإقصاء منافسيه

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) aims a machine gun while lying prone during a joint military exercise with forces of the US-led "Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve" coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group in the countryside of the town of al-Malikiya (Derik in Kurdish) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on Sept. 7, 2022.

تركيا تصعد جهودها لاستبدال الأكراد كقوة رئيسية ضد داعش في سوريا

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Shiite worshippers at all women’s section of the Sayyeda Zeinab shrine in Damascus on Jan. 28, 2025.

Feature

بعد سقوط الأسد.. إيران تأمل في العودة عبر الباب الخلفي لسوريا

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa shake hands during a joint press conference following their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, on February 4, 2025.

زيارة الشرع الأولى إلى تركيا كرئيس لسوريا تتسم بالفخامة والجوهر

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Thousands of supporters of the Kurdish community demonstrate with flags and banners on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the arrest of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan on the banks of the Rhine river in Cologne, western Germany, on Feb. 17, 2024.

تركيا والأكراد يتجهان نحو اتفاق سلام مع لقاء نواب مع زعيم حزب العمال الكردستاني أوجلان

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images

الزعيم الكردي بارزاني يلتقي زعيم قوات سوريا الديمقراطية كوباني للبحث عن أرضية مشتركة في سوريا

Amberin Zaman

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Tishrin Dam

قوات سوريا الديمقراطية تقول إن مدنيين قتلوا عندما قصف الجيش التركي سداً سورياً

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images

Exclusive

مبعوث أميركي يسعى إلى المصالحة بين الأكراد المتنافسين في سوريا بينما تحشد تركيا قواتها بالقرب من كوباني

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) inspect damaged and abandoned military vehicles and equipment at the Qamishli international airport, formerly a joint Syrian-russian military base, in northeastern Syria's city of Qamishli on Dec. 9, 2024.

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أكراد سوريا ينسحبون من منبج بعد الإنذار الأمريكي

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Jared Szuba

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Fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) inspect damaged and abandoned military vehicles and equipment at the Qamishli international airport, formerly a joint Syrian-russian military base, in northeastern Syria's city of Qamishli on Dec. 9, 2024.

أكراد سوريا يواجهون حربا شاملة مع استهداف تركيا وحلفائها السنة لكوباني

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Anti-government fighters ride military vehicles as they drive along a road in the eastern part of Aleppo province on Dec. 1, 2024.

بعد الاستيلاء على حلب، هاجم مسلحون تدعمهم تركيا أكراد سوريا

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture