Turkish-occupied area was calm, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, British-based monitor, said on Wednesday.. explosions hit various parts of Syria's northeast, including Kurdish-majority of Qamishli and the town of Suluk in Tal Abyad region near Turkey's border.. ..…

Damascus understood that the Kurds still placed their hopes in the US, British and French intervention to influence Trump’s withdrawal decision. The Kurdish political leaders were sceptical about the ability of Trump to implement this intention. . ..…

., French, other forces, and British, except little bit later after the end of Turkish operation that is not phenomenon. Turkish- Kurdish conflict has been going on since the collapse of Ottoman Empire when Kurds started to promote the ideas of self-identity and independence. ..…

The region’s Kurdish-led administration said 785 Islamic State-affiliated foreigners escaped a camp at Ain Issa over the weekend. The British-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing sources in the camp, said the number who escaped was smaller, around 100. . . . ..…

I covered Anatolia between Turkish Army and Kurdish militias known as 'peshmerga. Most important, Iraq's vast oil fields used to belong to Ottoman Empire until British Empire grabbed them at the end of World War I.  ..…

'The Kurdish people should have never placed their fate in the hands of a far off and thoroughly unreliable US 'ally' which has picked them up only to put them back on the shelf so many times before,' British politician George Galloway said, advising that Kurds had better choose Damascus. . Syrian..…

The men, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, are part of group of four British terrorists known as the. ... Kurdish forces were holding Kotey and Elsheikh Syria, and the prisoners were transferred to U.S authorities under the impending threat of Turkish invasion.. ..…

Gun’s information eventually made it to the public, and caused such embarrassment to the British Government that after a year of terrifying harassment of Gun (including almost deporting her Turkish Kurdish husband), and taking her to trial (with a long sentence if found guilty of..…

The conflict has, however, also brought about social changes that previously would have been thought impossible, particularly in areas under control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Escalating its threat to invade the area despite the presence of American, British, and..…

The government that ultimately emerged in Baghdad from national elections in 2018—led by President Barham Salih, a British-educated Kurdish leader; Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shia economist and intellectual who lived in France for years and attended an American Jesuit school in..…

Since the emergence in 2013 of the Islamic State of Syria and al-Sham, later Islamic State (IS), followed by its declaration of a caliphate, the British government has estimated that . . . ... Until recently, the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (Parti Jiyani Azadi Kurdistan – PJAK), an armed..…

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Foreign Ministry Summoned Britain’s Ambassador to the country Rob Macaire to voice Tehran’s strong protest over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar by British forces. . . . . Syria in Last 24 Hours: Several Turkish Soldiers Killed in Massive..…

In the latter-part of the century, Iraq's US- British-backed Saddam Hussein launched Anfal against Kurds. couple of years ago, US-approved leaders of Iraqi and Kurdish authorities squabbled over control of Mosul, anticipating that Daesh would be defeated.. ..…

More as Syrian and Kurdish forces besieged one of the group's strongholds Syria. The British government faced outrage this month after 19-year-old ISIS Shamima Begum's newborn baby died in Syrian refugee camp, ed. ..…

They are currently held by Kurdish fighters in Syria. . Among their victims were U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning. . . ..…

Britons El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey - two of a notorious group of British fighters nicknamed 'The Beatles' - are being held by Kurdish militia after being captured in Syria last year. . ..…

Britons El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey — two of a notorious group of British fighters nicknamed “The Beatles” — are being held by Kurdish militia after being captured in Syria last year. . ..…

It was described as a 'Kurdish street.'' . . January 5. Security Minister Ben Wallace admitted that the British government had lost track of the whereabouts of hundreds of Britons fighting for jihadi groups in the Middle East. ..…

The British put down the rebellion which involved Sunni and Shi’ite Arab tribes. However Kurdish rebels, also unhappy with being included in modern day Iraq and seeking greater independence, also begin a rebellion in 1919 under Sheykh Mahmud Barzanji. ..…

Under Iraq's, Salih - 58-year-old, British-educated engineer who has held in both Iraqi and Kurdish regional governments - had 15 days to invite the nominee of the bloc to form government. ..…

Salih, who previously has served as deputy prime minister of Iraq and prime minister of the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government, is seen as a moderate figure who favors maintaining strong relations with both the United States and Iran while promoting Kurdish interests through cooperation with..…

The success of the Afrin operation also promised to distance Turkey a little more from the US and other NATO countries such as France, which support the Arab-Kurdish forces. . Despite the bombing of Syrian military installations this April by US, British and French forces, Russia reckons..…

in British Guardian on October outlining the role of Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers in US-led assault on Mosul, Iraq's second city, noted that British, Australian and New Zealand SAS commandos are Iraq, along with US forces, where they have been calling in airstrikes to support both..…

In early 1996, US president Bill Clinton commissioned a reportedly $100-million attempt to oust the Iraqi president through collaborative efforts by the CIA, British intelligence, and a large number of Kurdish and Iraqi agents and recruits. ..…

The terrorists, he said, may be teaming with Kurdish extremists. . Charles Pena, director of defense-policy studies at the Cato Institute, said the attacks on British targets were timed to coincide with President Bush's visit to England, which has been the chief ally in the war in Iraq. . ..…

The League of Nations mandate of Iraq given to the British after World War I consisted of three former Turkish provinces; Mosul in the north with a heavy Kurdish population, Basra in the south, mostly Shi'ites, and Baghdad in the center with a mixed population of Sunnis, Jews and Shi'ites. ..…