ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Security forces affiliated with the new leadership in Damascus briefly visited Afrin on Thursday and received a warm welcome from locals, including Kurds who raised the ...

They have taken on even more of the trappings of an independent nation. The Kurdish flag, not the Iraqi one, hangs over government buildings, and many Kurds openly advocate secession—even though ...

The semi-autonomous Kurdish administration governing an enclave in northern Syria said on Thursday that it will adopt Syria's independence flag used by the opposition. In a statement, the ...