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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 ...
The Kurdish YPG has been the main force in a U.S.-backed alliance in northern Syria, but Turkey con Erdogan says Turkey expects allies to pull support from Kurds in post-Assad Syria Skip to main ...
With focus still on the collapse of Bashar Assad’s government, there are signs fighting is dramatically escalating in northeast Syria. The area is held by U.S.-backed Kurds, while Turkey ...
This strategic plan aimed to create a 30-kilometer deep buffer zone in territories controlled by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had emphasized the operation's connection to national security concerns, specifically citing activities of Kurdish militant groups in Turkey and Syria. [22]
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]
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 ...
Kurdish YPG and YPJ fighters in Syria. Kurds account for 9% of Syria's population, a total of around 1.6 million people. [249] This makes them the largest ethnic minority in the country. They are mostly concentrated in the northeast and the north, but there are also significant Kurdish populations in Aleppo and Damascus.
NATO allies Washington and Ankara supported Syrian rebels during the 13-year-long civil war, but their interests notably clashed when it came to one of the rebel factions - the Kurdish-led Syrian ...