The US Kurdish allies Syria, played key role in providing intelligence for the raid. ... Its invasion of Syria and attack on Syrian Democratic Forces, Kurdish-dominated group that for years has been in the front line against Islamic State, shows that Ankara is far more..…
BEIRUT — Syrian Kurdish forces said Monday they are increasing security at prisons and detention facilities holding tens of thousands of Islamic State militants and supporters, including foreigners, following the death of the in U.S military raid.. Forces from Kurdish-led..…
Hours later, Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Islamic State Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir, described had also been killed in joint raid by Kurdish-led and U.S forces Syria.. ..…
-led coalition and allied Syrian Kurdish forces battled Islamic State group... ... Kurdish fighters captured the main fields from Islamic State group to Syrian government.. ..…
Beginning in the 1960s, Syrian government began moving other populations to Kurdish territory to challenge Kurdish dominance there, sparking Kurdish resentment. . The devastation wrought by Islamic State such minority within Kurdish community, and sexual..…
The Kurdish fight against Islamic State . Archival images of Kurdish involvement in the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. . 15 Oct 2019 . . . . . ... The Kurdish fight against Islamic State . Archival images of Kurdish involvement..…
This move potentially enables a resurgence of Islamic State as Turkey prepares military assault against Kurdish fighters who helped U.S battle the Islamic State. ..…
By coalition led by the Much of the territory contested in the current fighting was wrested from the jihadists of Islamic State United States with Kurdish-led militia known as Syrian Democratic Forces, or S.D.F. ..…
Understanding this rubric makes it clear that while United States was focused on defeating Islamic State and backing SDF, Turkey was focused on fighting Kurdish PKK it was matter of time until Ankara's policy ran into Washington's. ... -backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic..…
Kurdish-led forces have been the main regional ally of United States against Islamic State Syria.. ... Islamic State claimed responsibility for car bomb on Friday Qamishli, the in Kurdish-held area, where some IS militants fled from jail.. ..…
For five years, United States policy relied on collaborating with Kurdish-led forces both to fight Islamic State and to limit the influence of Iran and Russia, with goal of maintaining some leverage over any settlement of the conflict.. ... The invasion ordered by President Recep Tayyip..…
The move cleared the way for Turkish military incursion into Syria area aimed at rooting out Kurdish-led militia that had been American-allied ground force helping to wrest territory from Islamic State... ... But that has upended efforts by United States and Kurdish-led militia..…
Beginning in the 1960s, Syrian government began moving other populations to Kurdish territory to challenge Kurdish dominance there, sparking Kurdish resentment.. The devastation wrought by Islamic State such minority within Kurdish community, and sexual..…
The United States is abandoning an ally in the fight against Islamic State. Kurdish militias were one of just two groups that actually did some fighting. ..…
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces begin advance on self-declared Islamic State, coalition air support. ... With Islamic State ousted, life returns to Syrian town. Al-Hol's capture was victory for Kurdish-Arab alliance, and chance for locals to breathe easy again. ..…
the US to United Nations said Turkey faced unspecified consequences if it did not meet its pledge to protect vulnerable populations or contain Islamic State fighters.. Kurdish-led Syria said prison that holds the most dangerous criminals from more and Turkey's attacks on its prisons..…
He added the aim to is to eliminate threats from Syrian Kurdish YPG and Islamic State militants, and enable the return of Syrian refugees Turkey after the formation of 'safe zone in the area.. ..…
Suspected Islamic State fighters being held February by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving Islamic State's last holdout of Baghouz, Syria. Suspected Islamic State fighters being held February by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving..…
This area was liberated from Islamic State by the Kurds, with US and allied support. ... The Turkish/Syrian/Kurdish/Islamic State/ Syrian opposition situation needs ideas, not talk. ..…
He said that United States, under the pretext of fighting Islamic State terrorists and taking Kurdish structures in the region as allies, in the eastern bank of Euphrates.. ..…
Immediately Kurdish leadership threatened to set free hundreds of Islamic State's prisoners and their family members being held makeshift prisons in Kurdish-held areas of Syria... ... President Macron reassured Kurdish leadership that hundreds of French troops stationed..…
Mattis and the top U.S. envoy to the anti-Islamic State coalition. It also led to major criticism that the U.S. was abandoning its local Kurdish allies amid Turkish threats of an imminent attack. . . . ... U.S. troops have been involved in Syria's war since 2014 when the first elite force..…
Islamic State terrorists are plotting to shell Kurdish-led militia with chemical-filled munitions Deir ez-Zor, Syria, Russian military said. Islamic State has launched production of toxin-filled mortar shells in the east of Deir ez-Zor province, on Wednesday. ..…
Objectively speaking, men like Erdogan and his son-in-law Berat Albayrak far more fit the terror label given their ties to Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Islamic State than do Kurdish activists.. ..…
Congolese doctor who has been fierce critic of his treatment of victims of sexual violence and Yazidi Kurdish activist who was held captive and raped by members of the Islamic State group are the winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Friday. . ..…
The group could be rebranding of Ansar al-Islam that is allied with Qaeda, or mix of Islamic State and Kurdish jihadists, Roggio said. ..…
Watchdog groups and U.S government officials say Islamic State's in its caliphate capital, Raqqa, are relocating to Deir Ezzor Kurdish militias, Turkish soldiers, and U.S troops prepare to battle for the liberation of Syrian city.. ... U.S government has insisted that its cooperation is..…
Assad's forces had been diminished, the product of fighting too many foes at once moderate Syrian rebels, Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Kurdish People's Protection Units, among others. While Reuters lists number of jihadist groups including Hezbollah, involved defense of Assad..…
Ömer Taşpınar is senior fellow in Center on 21st Century Security and Intelligence and expert on Turkey, European Union, Muslims Europe, Islam, Middle East, and Kurdish nationalism. ... Political Islam and Kurdish Nationalism Turkey and. Fighting Radicalism with..…
It has been year and half since President Obama announced that U.S would lead allied forces in air strikes and other tactics to degrade destroy ISIS forces that had swept across wide swaths of Iraq and Syria in bid to impose Islamic caliphate. Kurdish fighters, Iraqi army and others have..…
Syrian Kurdish military People's Protection Units have opposed Islamic State, and are regarded as the only force with significant military victories against ISIS to their name. ..…
That classification places KDP and PUK in category far below that reserved for terror groups like Islamic State and Qaeda -- both of. ... PKK's terrorist listing has posed its own difficulties for U.S in Middle East For months now, U.S has been supporting Syrian Kurdish fighters linked..…
Kurdish, leftist and Islamic militants are Istanbul and have carried out past bombings in the city. ..…