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In the sleepy Armenian lakeside town of Aknalich, crowds gathered for the opening of a new temple. Inside the vast vaulted stone building, musicians dressed in ivory coloured cotton garments and rolled headscarves processed in a circle. Some chanted sacred hy…

Vergine Gulbenkians journey with storytelling began 28 years ago. The UK-based storyteller has a vivid memory of the day when, as a 22-year-old, she shared her first story in London. It was a little story that my grandmother had told me and the environment wa…

The unanimous international community multiplies its condemnation of the military offensive in Rojava and watches helplessly as tens of thousands of Kurds flee, pursued by the Turkish army. However, no one intervenes, considering that a massacre may be the on…

Tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians are fleeing from the Turkish army, abandoning the land they had conquered and hoped to make their homeland. All wars involve a process of simplification: there are only two sides on a battlefield and everyone has to cho…

Though most of the fighting has stopped for now, Turkey’s incursion on Kurdish-controlled northern Syria has left another humanitarian crisis in its wake. Local churches as well as Christian organizations like Open Doors and Preemptive Love Coalition have pr…

One evening, during a visit to Kirkuk in Iraq in 2014, I stared into the darkness and felt nothing but dread for the Kurds of Syria. Separated from their Turkish brethren by the maps that Britain and France conceived after the First World War, and with little…

Op-Ed by Brandon Smith For many years now I have focused a considerable amount of analysis on the subject of Syria, with an emphasis on the country’s importance to the global elites as a kind of geopolitical detonator; the first domino in a chain of dominoes…

The Kurdish people are a Middle Eastern minority that has endured centuries of persecution. Israel has long seen them as an ally and has provided arms and training to its military organizations. Follow Ynetnews on FacebookFONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: bo…

Demonstrators gathered in Montreal Saturday to protest Turkey's incursion into northeast Syria, warning of humanitarian disaster and U.S. strategic folly. Members of the Kurdish-Canadian community said the Turkish assault could upend the stability of a fragi…

On October 7, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter and declared that the time had come for the United States “to get out of these ridiculous endless wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home” following a phone call with Turkish Presi…