“Barzan is a very well-known Kurdish tribe, and the Jews who lived in that area were very few,” he said. The Kurdish Jewish population in Iraq, Iran and Turkey probably reached 25,000 at its ...

a senior Hayat Tahrir al-Sham officer said that local tribes allied with his group had wrested control of the eastern city of Deir al-Zour from Kurdish fighters who had taken over as Mr. al-Assad ...

During the fall and winter of that year he consolidated his position among the various Kurdish tribes, defeated tribal groups armed by Kassim, such as the Lolans and Harchis, and attacked ...

A coalition of Syrian Arab tribes crossed the Euphrates River and attacked Al-Omar and Conoco oil fields and Kurdish controlled villages in Deir Ezzor, Al Mayadeen and Sputnik Arabic reported on ...

THE 13-year civil war between Syria’s government and rebel fighters has ended, but the peril is not over for Syria’s Kurdish ...

If the Kurdish-Arab alliance unravels, the U.S. military may decide to directly back Arab tribes as a bulwark against Iran and the Islamic State, according to Nicholas Heras, who has advised the U ...

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What do modern tribes look like? And what purpose do they ... Government’s response was uncompromising – thousands of Kurdish villages were destroyed… forcing family groups to separate ...

Gen. Mazlum Kobani, commander of Kurdish forces in Syria, said recent decisions by the U.S. in Syria potentially “leaves a vacuum” that ISIS could take advantage of. By Eve Sampson The ...