In northeast Syria, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces hold about 12,000 men and boys suspected of ISIS affiliation, including 2,000 to 4,000 foreigners from almost 50 different countries, in overcrowded prisons. Behind the scenes, however, some European States, including Denmark,..…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced last Monday, the imminent withdrawal of US forces from areas North Eastern Syria, controlled by Kurdish SDF, following phone call with US President Donald Trump.. ... Syria's Kurdish groups operating in North East of the..…
The dissolution of partnership, reconstructed here through more pained Syria's Kurds and Americans. ... in northeastern Syria, Kurdish-led force sent spies who watched the house, determined how many rooms it had and. ..…
People look at destroyed houses near the village of Barisha, Idlib, Syria, Sunday, Oct 27, 2019, the leader of Islamic State group. ... Later Sunday, Mazloum Abdi, the commander of Syrian Kurdish-led forces, said his intelligence cooperated with U.S military to target al-Muhajir in..…
BEIRUT — Syrian Kurdish forces killed the right-hand man and spokesman for Islamic State group in operation with U.S troops Syria, just hours Kurdish commander said today.. ... Syrian Kurdish forces appeared ready to portray al-Baghdadi's death weeks after Trump..…
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which Erdogan considers a threat to national security, are required to withdraw southward into Syria. . ... On one hand, Putin acknowledges the need to assuage Edrogan’s anxieties about Kurdish militias along Syria’s border..…
President Donald Trump announced that al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State group the world's most wanted man, died during raid by U.S special forces Syria.. The commander of Syria's Kurdish forces says his unit carried out operation with U.S troops Syria hours,..…
The dissolution of partnership, reconstructed here through more pained Syria's Kurds and Americans. ... in northeastern Syria, Kurdish-led force sent spies who watched the house, determined how many rooms it had and. ..…
Syria's population of 22 million includes Arab, Kurdish, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkoman and Circassian nationalities and Sunni, Alawi, Shia, Druze, Yazidi, and Christian religious sects. Turkish ruling class fears having armed units of Kurds Syria, because Turkish army is waging..…
Syria's population of 22 million includes Arab, Kurdish, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkoman and Circassian nationalities and Sunni, Alawi, Shia, Druze, Yazidi, and Christian religious sects. Turkish ruling class fears having armed units of Kurds Syria, because Turkish army is waging..…
rough estimate found the CIA Factbook sets Kurdish population at 14.5 Turkey, Iran, about 5 to Iraq and less than Syria. ... Today, disagreements over prospects for Kurdish Syria or Iraqi Kurds relations with Turkish government have fostered tensions that have..…
The statement by Iraqi military, however, said that all American troops that withdrew from Syria have permission to Iraq's Kurdish region, and then from there to be relocated out of Iraq... President Donald Trump ordered the bulk of U.S troops Syria to withdraw after Turkish President..…
Located near Syrian dam on River Euphrates and 40km from Raqqa, it offers Moscow complete control of Syria including Kurdish regions of the northeast and Syrian- Iraqi border, excepting only the large US garrison at Tanf. ... Having appealed to Moscow and Damascus to halt Turkish..…
By politicians seeking to further their own in the, Kurdish Syria, as Iraq, has long been stuck between Ocallan's armed militia, Turkish government and their own authoritarian leaders — used and abused, my research finds, Mideast.. ..…
According to Kurdish-led northeast Syria, there are around 12,000 suspected Daesh militants in the custody of Kurdish forces across prisons in northeastern Syria.. ... On October, Turkish military forces and Ankara-backed militants launched cross-border invasion of..…
Kurdish Syria is small portion of territory, known as Kurdistan, that includes parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. ... Internal cleavages in Syria's Kurdish community undermine Rojava project, the perpetual jockeying for power between Kurdish clans and the..…
Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples of Mesopotamian plains and the in what are now south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Syria, Iraq, north-western Iran and south-western Armenia.. Western allies made provision for Kurdish state in Treaty of Sevres.. ..…
Ahmed Suleiman, member of Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party Syria, said the talks were being held at Russia's Hmeimim Latakia. ... His party, one of Syria's Kurdish groups, is not involved in the administration set up by SDF and other Kurdish groups such as..…
But Turkish incursion has raised international alarm over large-scale displacements of civilians and, amidst the upheaval, the possibility of Islamic State militants escaping from prisons run by Kurdish-led authorities.. Kurdish-led forces have been the main regional ally of United States..…
Erdogan plans the displacement of many tens of thousands of Kurds and the ethnic engineering of Syrian Arab against Kurdish state.. Erdogan regime fears that the consolidation of Kurdish state Syria, Rojava, would encourage similar movements amongst Kurds Turkey.. ..…
TEHRAN - Five ISIL Takfiri terrorists broke out of Northeast Syria on Friday media in Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced.. ... On Thursday, Kurdish official warned that ISIL detainees could break out of detention as security forces confront Turkish Northern..…
Kurdish Syria is small portion of territory, known as Kurdistan, that includes parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. ... Internal cleavages Syria's Kurdish community undermine Rojava project, the perpetual jockeying for power between Kurdish clans and the struggle for..…
Syria: Thousands Flee as Turkey Bombards Kurdish Fighters . TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish warplanes and artillery hit Kurdish militia targets in Northeast Syria on the third day of a military operation that has killed hundreds and forced tens of thousands to flee . . . . .....…
U.N refugee agency says tens of thousands of civilians Syria are on the move to escape the fighting and seek amid Turkish into the area.. Kurdish Hawar news agency said Thursday's attack on the road leading to the town of Tal Abyad killed three people and wounded several others.. ..…
Turkish Forces Cross Border Into Northern Syria, Hit Kurdish Areas . Just days after President Trump agreed to remove American forces from the scene, Turkish forces are entering northern Syria and Kurdish forces say they ar ready for war. . · Thursday, October 10, 2019 ·..…
During Cold War Soviet Union and its ally, Syria, supported PKK, and Kurdish groups, with view to weakening Turkey and NATO.. ... The PYD is handling Kurdish Affairs for Assad. Free elections in Kurdish controlled areas will pro-American groups like Kurdistan National..…
As President Recep Erdogan announced the start of a Turkish operation in northeastern Syria on Wednesday, Oct. 9, the Kurdish-led SDF reported that Turkish warplanes were striking civilian areas. ... Turkish ground forces and tanks crossed into Syria Wednesday night. . ..…
Turkey has already carried out two cross-border offensives into Syria, including one in 2018 that saw it and allied Syria rebels overrun the majority Kurdish Afrin enclave in the northwest. . ... The following day, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirms that Turkish action against..…
., Syria and to forcibly resettle some of the million refugees. Erdogan regime fears that the consolidation of Kurdish state Syria would encourage similar movements amongst Kurds Turkey. ... The CWI has always argued that reliance on imperialism, such and Kurdish..…
Kobani says he left P.K.K to return to Syria after the war broke out in 2011 to organize forces to protect Kurdish communities. ..…
That announcement was met by Senate resolution against US abandonment of America's Kurdish allies in northeastern Syria. 1000 US troops remain there. ... Turkey has declared its intention to resettle millions of Syrian Arab refugees now Turkey into Kurdish northeastern..…
Kurdish militia forces have been controlling areas Syria order to force Damascus to recognize federal rule or autonomy for Kurds Syria.. In 2018, Kurdish forces lost Afrin enclave in the countryside of Aleppo Syria to Turkey-backed rebels.. ..…
Free to organize and collaborate with other civil society groups, Europe's Kurds have raised awareness of Kurdish issues and put pressure on national governments Germany, France, and Netherlands — Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The fluidity of physical boundaries between Kurds, the creation..…
WASHINGTON — In major shift United States military Syria, White House said on Sunday that President Trump had given his endorsement for Turkish military operation that would sweep away American-backed Kurdish forces near Syria.. But Kurdish fighters, or S.D.F., have..…
BEIRUT — official with Kurdish-led force Syria says the minority is not represented on the committee that will be in charge of drafting new constitution.. ... Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen told Al-Jazeera TV that it's important for me to emphasize that of course also..…
Turkey presses Syria offensive as rockets hit border town 10 said killed in initial strikes as Turkish military bears down on Kurdish-controlled Afrin Syria's north. January 21, 2018, 1 31 am 72 Turkish jets pound Kurdish new Syria offensive. ..…
In development on Saturday, fierce clashes between Turkish Army and Kurdish militias intensified Northern Aleppo and Hasaka as Turkey sent its special troops to the borders with Syria.. ... Kurdish official warned on Monday that the US had given greenlight to Turkey to attack..…
France and United States are encouraging rapprochement between Syria's two feuding Kurdish political blocs, Democratic Union Party and Kurdish National Council. ... Pending major shift in northeast Syria, piecemeal defections from Kurdish National Council to the..…
Syria: Women take matters into their own hands . On March 10, 2017, a large group of Kurdish women, backed by volunteers from all over the world, laid the cornerstone for a new village in northeast Syria. ... Women’s villages extend beyond just the Kurdish region in..…
Concern about Kurdish Syria is growing amid fears of Turkish, the return of Syrian to the north, the escalation of Kurdish- Kurdish conflict and potential direct confrontation. ... KNC delegation included leaders of three parties Abdul Karim Mohammed, a member of the bureau..…
About third have returned to Germany, to have died, and the rest are thought still to be Iraq and Syria, these officials say.. Thousands of Islamic State members, including hundreds of foreigners and women and children, being held by Kurdish-led authorities Syria.. ..…
This was in defiance of the ideology of their organisation, however, and was one of the factors that led to the split between AQI and al- Qaeda central and the formation of Islamic State... ..…
Turkey views the Kurdish militias in Syria as affiliates of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party—a Kurdish nationalist group known as the PKK that is responsible for a decades-long insurgency in Turkey. ... Turkish forces already invaded and expelled Kurdish fighters from..…
The regions being administered by Kurds Syria include Kurdish-majority Qamishli and al-Hasakah northeastern Syria along the border with Iraq, and Arab-majority towns of Manbij to the west of Euphrates River Syria and Kobani to the east of Euphrates River along Turkish border.. ..…
Video Military Situation Syria, Intra-militant Struggle for Idlib Enters New Stage By South Front, January 05, 2019.. Video Peace and Reconstruction Syria Kurdish People's Protection Units Invites Syrian Army to Manbij By South Front, December 28, 2018.. ..…
In rough order, first was State Department's provision of weaponry to FSA second, CIA training program Timber Sycamore and third, Operation Inherent Resolve, Pentagon's of the anti- ISIS with Kurdish People's Protection Units, YPG, Syria. ..…
The high-ranking US officials had to make do with meeting Ibrahim Kalin, while Erdogan used parliament to rebuff any American proposals for US-backed Kurdish group to play Syria after the US withdrawal.. ... Erdogan then announced that his army will very soon mobilize to eliminate..…
Turkey saw US-led military presence as in dealing with Kurdish forces Syria it views as threat to its security.. ... For us to withdraw right now and abandon our Kurdish allies, paves highway for control of Syria for either Iran and Russia or Turkey... ..…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later hit back at Erdogan, issuing blistering criticism of Turkey's of Cyprus and Turkish of Kurdish and Kurds in neighboring Syria... ... In the wake of the announcement, Erdogan on Friday vowed to drive out US-backed Kurdish militia and..…
By attempting to divide the country through its backing of, As was Iraq, U.S has also been accused by Russia of playing a dangerous game Syria Kurdish groups, some of. ..…
Erdogan has become increasingly obsessed about the Kurds, less because of Kurdish insurgency and more because Turkey and Syria’s Kurdish communities consistently prioritize ethnic and cultural identity above religion. . ..…
There are still significant tensions with Turkey over the U.S. decision to arm Kurdish fighters to fight the Islamic State. The Turkish military campaign and occupation of Syria’s Kurdish-majority, northwestern region of Afrin has led to mass population expulsion of Kurds. ..…
That's one reason why Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of Kurdish Workers Party developed the idea of confederalism for its offshoot Syria, PYD.. ..…
Erdogan ca not distinguish between Kurdistan Workers Party, long enemy of Turkey, from Kurdish Protection Units, group busy defending Kurdish rights in parts of Iraq and Syria. ... He considers Kurdish YPG militia terror group, despite the fact they fought-and-died to..…
Redur Xelil, YPG spokesperson, declared that Russia has indeed established Syria, particularly in Kurdish of Afrin, reveals Rudaw.. ... Afrin, home of Russian troops Kurdish-held Syria, is of one of three cantons that make up the region of Rojava.. ..…
By allowing the fall of Aleppo, Turkey has demonstrated that its only Syria is to repress Kurds and prevent the emergence of Kurdish entity, rather than support the revolutionary process. As you said, one of the things that Turkish state did IN mid-2013 was to tell to Syrian opposition,..…
More with Asayish fighters martyrs, Syrian Kurdish official told Reuters.. Kurdish groups and their allies aim to finalize plans within six months for autonomous Syria, pressing ahead despite the objections of foreign governments. ..…
in Kurdish-controlled of Rmeilan on Wednesday discussed 'Democratic Federal System for Rojava Northern Syria, and ended with decision to make the announcement at news conference on Thursday, it adds.. ... In Syria's, Kurdish fighters have emerged as the most effective..…
But Erdogan also considers Syria’s Kurdish fighters, the YPG, to be terrorists. ..…