Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Kurdish demonstrator holds a flag during a protest demanding the release of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah ...

JERUSALEM — Just hours after meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and discussing the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, Turkey's foreign minister sent a shocking message to Washington ...

Syria had already held types of limited elections in other areas of Syria last year. However, areas outside government ...

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Despite US denial, PKK and YPG have powerfully been linked to each other. In 2017, after the YPG-led SDF takeover of Raqqa, ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it will disband and disarm following its more than four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state that has resulted in the deaths of over ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -The Kurdish YPG militia, which spearheads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), should stop "playing for time" and abide by its integration agreement with the Syrian ...

He was killed in clashes with Islamic State near the Syrian border town of Kobani, the People's Protection Union (YPG) Kurdish militia said on its web site, where it published the picture of man it ...

BEIRUT — Over the past decade, the religiously and ethnically mixed Syrian Democratic Forces had been the most effective force in the battle against the Islamic State group in Syria. The Kurdish-led ...

As Syrians celebrate the end of the tyrannical regime of Bashar al-Assad, the war-weary Syrian state faces a combustible set of challenges to its political, security, and territorial governance. Hayat ...