An internal Kurdish power feud has triggered mass arrests, alleged executions, and the unresolved detention of an American veteran amid rising Iranian influence.

In northeast Syria, Kurdish women are using music and performance to assert cultural identity, promote female empowerment and navigate postwar challenges.

In recent months Turkey’s peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an armed Kurdish group that has been locked in a war with the country’s army for four decades, have picked up steam. In a ...