ANKARA (Reuters) -The Kurdish YPG militia, which heads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), should stop "playing for time" and honour its agreement to integrate with the Syrian government, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey will carry out a cross-border offensive into northeastern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia if the ...

Commander Mazloum Abdi announced the SDF's dissolution at the presidential palace in Damascus, ending the existence of the ...

ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the Kurdish YPG militia had not withdrawn from some Syrian border areas and that U.S. forces were still carrying out joint ...

The Kurdish coalition that controls a third of Syria and helped the US fight ISIS is facing a new reality after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. NATO ally Turkey sees them as a threat and is demanding ...

The appointment came days after Abdi declared the Kurdish-led force dissolved and integrated into the Syrian army, ending a ...

AL-HASAKAH, Syria — At a military outpost 30 kilometers (19 miles) southeast of the city of al-Hasakah, a young woman in black military garb stands on the roof of a small building and scans the ...

ANKARA: Some Arab tribes in Manbij have called for Turkish military intervention in the northern Syrian town against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), Syrian sources told Arab News. The YPG ...

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. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim made the threat ...

Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with Turkey ...