The deal, sealed on Tuesday by Presidents Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, requires that Russian military police and Syrian border guards remove all Kurdish YPG militia from within 30 km (19 miles) of the Turkish border by next Tuesday. . The military police, from the southern Russian..…

American public opinion eventually forced the administration to establish northern and southern no-fly zones to protect the two populations. . Kurdish loyalty to America has cost them quite a bit, and so it is with a certain narcissism that the Bush administration presumed to tell the..…

The protests — which were concentrated in Baghdad and the southern regions of Iraq, and had no effect on the Kurdish region in the north of the country — have now ceased more or less, but resulted in more than a hundred deaths and over 6,000 wounded. ..…

But the rise of Kurdish autonomy across its southern border angered Turkey, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had threatened to send Turkish forces into Syria to root out Kurdish militants long before Mr. ..…

Turkey calls the Kurdish militias ‘terrorists’ and links them to the original Kurdish resistance movement PKK which is on the US and Turkish black list.  I covered the brutal conflict in eastern Anatolia (southern Turkey) between the Turkish Army and Kurdish militias known as..…

Ankara seeks to create a “safe zone” to return millions of refugees to Syrian soil and end a “terror corridor” on Turkey’s southern border. Turkey says Kurdish YPG fighters in northeast Syria are terrorists due to their links to militants waging an insurgency inside Turkey. . ..…

Protesters in al-Shaddadi in Southern Hasaka Call for Expulsion of US-Backed SDF  . . Kurdish Militias' Role in Attacking Hashd al-Sha'abi Exposed  . . . . . . . . 11 ISIL Commanders Killed in Iraqi Security Forces in Central Iraq . ..…

In a relevant development on Sunday, Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at was preparing for attacks from several directions on the city of Aleppo after it was badly defeated in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib. . The Kurdish-language Hawar News quoted informed sources in Aleppo province as saying that..…

Syria in Last 24 Hours: Army Liberates Several Areas in Southern Idlib  . . Syrian Army Liberates Several Areas in Southern Idlib  . . Aleppo: Turkish Army Conducts Heavy Attacks on Kurdish Positions After Agreement with US  . . ..…

In what would be Turkey's third cross-border military Syria since the war began, in as many years, Erdogan announced on Sunday that he would be launching east of Euphrates river, to push back Kurdish militias on Turkey's southern border.. ..…

Thus, for all practical purposes, it appears the withdrawal of American troops from Syria will be limited to Kurdish-occupied Arab-majority towns of Manbij and Kobani in northern Syria in order to address the concerns of Washington’s NATO-ally Turkey pertaining to the presence of Kurdish militias..…

The Turkish 'east of Euphrates' military doctrine basically means that the Turkish armed forces would not tolerate the presence of the Syrian PYD/YPG Kurds – which the Turks regard as 'terrorists' allied to the PKK Kurdish separatist group in Turkey – in Manbij and Kobani, in line with the longstanding..…

“The situation in northeastern Syria, where the Americans are still trying to dally with the separatist-minded Kurdish groups continues to cause concern,” MZ explained, adding:  . “The same is going on in southern Syria, the At-Tanf region, where US forces openly occupy the territory..…

Turkey deployed convoy that included tanks and howitzers to the southern province of Kilis to be positioned across from the Kurdish-controlled Syrian of Afrin.. ..…

The operations began in the wake of a deadly July 20 bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc, an ethnically Kurdish town located close to border with Syria. ..…

The operations began in the wake of a deadly July 20 bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc, an ethnically Kurdish town located close to border with Syria. ..…

Watchdog groups and U.S. government officials say the Islamic State’s leadership in its caliphate “capital,” Raqqa, are relocating to Deir Ezzor as a coalition of Syrian rebels, Kurdish militias, Turkish soldiers, and U.S. troops prepare to battle for the liberation of the southern..…

Demirtaş is facing charges of aiding terrorism, along with investigation into his presence at in southern Diyarbakir, home to much of Kurdish minority, at. ..…

As in his Der Spiegel interview, Demirtas wrote at The New York Times that Erdogan’s war on Kurdish towns in southern Turkey resembled the Syrian civil war. ..…

Shiite militias control much of southern Iraq, Kurdish militia controls the north, and Sunnis in the west have turned to the insurgency as their de militia. ..…

The worst that might happen is ethnic cleansing around Kirkuk and its oilfields, where Saddam Hussein encouraged Arab settlement to erode Kurdish dominance of the area. Southern Iraq is already controlled by the militias of the Shiite religious parties, and has only a small minority of..…