"The YPG/SDF must stop its policy of playing for time," Fidan told a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart Asaad al-Shibani in Ankara. The Kurdish YPG militia, which spearheads the ...

His remarks stand in contrast to the position of Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and ...

Jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan has written to Arab tribal leaders in northern Syria calling for ...

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 ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's defense ministry said on Tuesday Kurdish YPG militia had killed three people and wounded eight in a missile attack on a school in the Tel Abyad region of northern Syria ...

Kurds and the Islamic State As the Islamic State advanced through Syria and Iraq, the Kurdish militias, particularly the People’s Protection Units (YPG), were among the few forces able to resist them.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that although Ankara has reservations about the March agreement between ...

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Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and ...

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters captured large sections of a strategic town on the Syria-Turkish border on Monday, dealing the biggest setback yet to the Islamic State group, which lost a ...

(AINA) -- Assyrian organizations in Europe have issued a joint statement on the attack by the YPG Kurdish militia on Assyrian security forces in Qamishli, Syria. One Assyrian fighter was killed in the ...

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, ...