Turkey considers the YPG to be an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade-long insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast. Washington regards the ...

U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State (IS) militants surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militants out could take up to four months.

Our heritage sites continue to be vandalized and destroyed, even used for military exercises by the Kurdish Regional ...

A former senior figure in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Wednesday said Turkey’s renewed push for peace with the group ...

The U.S. Central Command chief on Tuesday praised the role Türkiye has played in unifying Syria as the latter grapples with ...

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Kurdish Academic: Syria needs historic shift, not compromise Kurdish politician and academic Dr. Jalal Mulla Haji emphasized that: "What is required of the Damascus today, even if temporary, is not a ...