A picture Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is displayed inside a petrol station in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli ...

Shortly after the uprising against the Assad government began in 2011, the Kurds filled the vacuum created by the withdrawal of government forces from wide areas of Syria’s northeast.

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Kurds in Syria were marginalized ...