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Map via Joe Schueller. Data from Liveuamap. ... The United States and its allies had intervened in Syria in the latter part of the last decade to put down the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS ...
Part of a stateless ethnic group straddling Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Armenia and Syria, Kurds have so far been among the few winners of the Syrian conflict, controlling nearly a quarter of the country ...
The Kurds currently guard 50,000 Islamic State prisoners in camps and are also essential to prevent the group regaining a foothold. There are calls from some for the U.S. to warn Turkey to pull ...
The sources said negotiations between the SDF and the SNA had 'failed' and that 'significant military buildups' in areas east and west of the Kurdish town of Kobani on the Turkish border were being observed." [32] On 17 December 2024, the truce was extended by a week. [2]
The Turkish offensive in northern Syria expanded, with the Turkish Armed Forces launching airstrikes in the vicinity of Kobani later that month. [35] On 23 December 2024, the SDF launched an offensive in the eastern countryside of Aleppo to regain control of positions around the Tishrin Dam and to gain further territory along the Euphrates ...
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 ]
In their capture of Aleppo, the rebels now encircle several neighborhoods controlled by the SDF, and have promised the Kurdish fighters safe passage to northeast Syria. It is unclear if they have ...
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]