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  2. Kurds in Syria - Wikipedia

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    Syrian Kurds live mainly in three Kurdish pockets in northern Syria adjacent to Turkey. [5] Many Kurds also live in the large cities and metropolitan areas of the country, for example, in the neighborhood Rukn al-Din in Damascus, which was formerly known as Hayy al Akrad (Kurdish Quarter), and the Aleppo neighborhoods of al Ashrafiya [23] and Sheikh Maqsood.

  3. Syrian Kurdistan - Wikipedia

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    Syrian Kurdistan [a] or Rojava (Kurdish: Rojavayê Kurdistanê, lit. 'Kurdistan where the sun sets') is a region in northern Syria where Kurds form the majority. It is surrounding three noncontiguous enclaves along the Turkish and Iraqi borders: Afrin in the northwest, Kobani in the north, and Jazira in the northeast. [1]

  4. Kurds - Wikipedia

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    Kurdish-inhabited areas in the Middle East (1992) Maunsell's map of 1910, a pre-World War I British ethnographical map of the Middle East, showing the Kurdish regions in yellow (both light and dark) Kurdish (Kurdish: Kurdî or کوردی) is a collection of related dialects spoken by the Kurds. [50]

  5. EXPLAINER-Where do the Kurds fit into Syria's war? - AOL

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    The future of Kurdish-led swathes of northern and eastern Syria has been thrown into doubt by President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops who have helped secure the territory. The ...

  6. Kurdish population - Wikipedia

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    Syrian Kurds have faced routine discrimination and harassment by the government. [26] [27] Syrian Kurdistan is an unofficial name used by some to describe the Kurdish inhabited regions of northern and northeastern Syria. [28] The northeastern Kurdish inhabited region covers the greater part of Hasakah Governorate.

  7. List of Kurdish dynasties and countries - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Kurdish dynasties, countries and autonomous territories. The Kurds are an Iranian people without their own nation state, they inhabit a geo-cultural region known as "Kurdistan" which lies in east Turkey, north Syria, north Iraq and west Iran. (For more information see Origin of the Kurds.) [1] [2]

  8. Kurdish immigration into Syria - Wikipedia

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    Today Kurds form about 10% of Syria's population, numbering around 2 million. [1] The majority of Kurds in Syria immigrated from Turkey to the French Mandate the 20th century to escape persecution. [2] Most of these Kurds live in northeast Syria, with smaller communities scattered in various places across the country.

  9. Syria's Kurds to try IS fighters after their home countries ...

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    The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria announced Saturday that hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home ...