Winter is fast approaching in Iraq’s Kurdistan and as heavy rain threatens to exacerbate an already dire situation for the region’s 235,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees, local organizations are fighting a battle against time in an attempt to soften the cold blow of winter. November...

Leader of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) did not meet at all   Dr. Riad Hijab, Defected Syrian Prime Minister, he said in a reply to rumors spread on regime’s websites to Zaman Alwasl. More rumours said that Mr. Saleh Muslim met Refaat al-Assad, Uncle of...

Assad Security forces have arrested the Secretary General of the National Co-ordination Body for Democratic Change  in Damascus Wednesday, president of the Co-ordination said. In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Haytham Manna, France-based external head of the...

Turkey on Friday warned that it would not accept this week's declaration of provisional self-rule by Kurds in neighbouring war-torn Syria. "Turkey cannot permit a fait accompli, there is no question of accepting such a thing in Syria," Turkish President Abdullah Gul said in televised...