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The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) [a] is a Kurdish-led [13] [105] [106] coalition of U.S.-backed left-wing [107] [108] ethnic militias and rebel groups, and serves as the official military wing of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES; also unofficially known as Rojava).
In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the main U.S. ally whose fighters are currently guarding 45,000 ISIS militants and ...
Geneva Call immediately praised the SDF's wide-ranging initiative to eliminate and prevent child recruitment throughout all of SDF's military organizations. [ 143 ] In June 2020, United Nations reported the YPG/YPJ as the largest faction in the Syrian civil war by the number of recruited child soldiers with 283 child soldiers followed by Hayat ...
The SDF is a Kurdish-led alliance in north and east Syria which worked with the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State. Spearheaded by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and including ...
The SDF deployed the Commando Forces to suppress the al-Sina’a Prison break in 2022. [6] [7] On 5 February 2024, six members of the Hêzên Komandos were killed within an SDF training academy near the al-Omar Oil Fields, when an Iranian attack drone launched by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) from Syrian Government territory struck the ...
A ceasefire between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces (SDF) around the northern Syrian city of Manbij has been extended until the end of this week, State Department spokesperson ...
The remaining SDF-controlled towns in the region were cut off from communication after being encircled by opposition forces. [95] On 2 December, the SDF announced plans to evacuate Kurdish IDPs from Tel Rifaat and the Shahba Canton to SDF-held areas in Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsood district and northeastern Syria. [96] [97]
The SDF is largely made up of Kurdish fighters from a group known as the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG), which is considered a terrorist organization by neighboring Turkey. The SDF’s top ...