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QAMISHLI, Syria/BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) -With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilising against them in Syria's north, and Damascus ruled by a group friendly to Ankara, Syria's main Kurdish ...
Negotiators are zeroing in on a potential deal to resolve one of the most explosive questions looming over Syria's future: the fate of Kurdish forces that the U.S. considers key allies against ...
In December 2018, U.S. Kurdish allies in Syria discussed the release of 3,200 ISIS prisoners, a prominent monitoring group and a Western official of the anti-Islamic State coalition said, a day after President Trump ordered the withdrawal of all American troops from the country. The SDF denied that such talks have taken place. [229]
The 2024 Hama offensive was a military operation launched by forces of the Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) and Turkish-backed [18] rebel groups of the Syrian Interim Government (SIG) during the 2024 Syrian opposition offensive, a phase of the Syrian civil war.
The offensive was launched with the intent to capture the Kurdish-majority city of Kobanî and positions in Ayn al-Arab District to the east of the Euphrates. The offensive was initiated with numerous airstrikes across the Kobanî countryside, and on the Tishrin Dam standing on the Euphrates between recently captured Manbij District territories ...
The collapse of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria throws a major wrench into the counter-ISIS mission for the roughly 900 U.S. troops in the country, while also complicating Washington’s allies ...
SDF-controlled territory (green), Turkish-occupied Afrin (red) in October 2018 The People's Defense Units (YPG), [a] also called People's Protection Units, is a libertarian socialist [4] US-backed [5] [6] Kurdish militant group in Syria and the primary component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The clashes raise concerns of more divisions between U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters in eastern Syria that borders Iraq and where the Islamic State group once enjoyed wide presence.