YPG (Kurdish People's Protection Units) is written over a wall painting of ISIS flag inside a house, in the border town of Tal Abyad, Syria, October 16, 2019.

The YPG said the other slain U.S. national was Nicholas Warden, 29, who had adopted the Kurdish name Rodî Deysie. According to the statement posted by the YPG, he was killed on July 5, also ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurdish fighter Seewar Sofi still wears his uniform. It matches those of his comrades in the photo taped above his hospital bed. The fatigues he was issued as a member of the ...

Turkey’s Prime Minister warned that Kurdish YPG forces will pay “twice as much” following the deaths of seven Turkish soldiers in Syria’s Afrin province.

The 24-year-old Kurdish YPG representative, a veteran of the Isis siege of Kobani on the Turkish border, said that just over two weeks ago – after the latest Syrian offensive took Isis forces ...

By Rodi Said and Dominic Evans QAMISHLI, Syria/ANKARA (Reuters) – The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said on Wednesday that Turkish military deployments near Kurdish-held areas of nor… ...

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The YPG is part of the larger umbrella organization, the SDF, and is not associated with the PKK. People leave the area after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue, Nov. 13 ...

Syrian Kurdish forces known as YPG pushed the Islamic State from the city of Ain Issa. Is US safer from guns? ... Syrian Kurds victory over ISIL could stir up problems. Lucy Kafanov.

(Reuters) – Turkey has said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia were responsible for a blast on the historic Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul on Sunday that killed ...

Erdogan says YPG ‘will be buried’ in Syria if it doesn’t lay down arms. Ankara has repeatedly insisted that the Kurdish YPG militia must disband and called on the US to stop supporting it.

Following al-Assad’s ouster on December 8, Ankara has repeatedly insisted that the Kurdish YPG militia must disband, asserting that the group has no place in Syria’s future.