Hundreds of foreign nationals are fighting in Afrin to defend the Kurdish ... YPG, no legal proceedings have been launched against them so far. But some of them say they are on “fiche S", France ...

Relations between Ankara and Paris have been tense in recent weeks, with France increasingly criticising the two-month-old Turkish military operation against the Kurdish YPG in northern Syria, which ...

Those rules were scrapped last week, when Syrian Kurdish forces known as the YPG seized the town. Tuesday, the YPG and its allies pushed the Islamic State from the town of Ain Issa, putting the ...

The United States has 2,000 troops in SDF-held territory and France also has some troops there as part of the coalition. Ankara considers the YPG fighters in the SDF to be an extension of Kurdish ...

Oct 5 (Reuters) - U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces said on ... Support for the YPG by the United States and other allies, including France, has strained ties with Ankara. Turkey says the YPG ...

Manbij is occupied by both the U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG and American troops. The maneuvers come in the wake of President Trump's decision to withdraw the 2,200 U.S. troops in Syria — a move that ...

France's president on Thursday assured the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of Paris' support to stabilise northeastern Syria against Islamic State, and Kurdish officials said he ...

Maintaining its military presence in Syria, France has reportedly engaged in efforts to mediate between the YPG/PKK terrorist group and Syrian pro-opposition Kurds. According to information ...

QAMISHLI, Syria/ANKARA (Reuters) – The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said on Wednesday ... on the ground,” he told France 24 television in an interview shown later on Wednesday.

"Important announcements are expected from France." A Kurdish official said the delegation, which included military and political officials, including a YPG spokesman, would meet Macron.

Relations between Ankara and Paris have been tense in recent weeks, with France increasingly criticising the two-month-old Turkish military operation against the Kurdish YPG in northern Syria ...