Under a ceasefire agreement with the Kurdish-led SDF, Syrian government troops have entered Kurdish strongholds, with the stated goal of facilitating Kurds' integration. But the situation is volatile, ...

An Editor at Large: ‘It’s a bit like Gaza,’ says a BBC journalist, in what is an unintentionally revealing remark. Photo: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images/Dinendra Haria/Zuma Press The Kurds are a great ...

Syria is at a “major turning point”, said Noura Doukhi in L’Orient-Le Jour (Beirut). When the current president Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former leader of the Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), ...

The Syrian government’s campaign to wrest the country’s northeast from the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led militia is fueling a fierce debate in Washington over whether to support the country’s new president ...

Kamran Matin is affiliated with Kurdish Peace Institute. Many Kurdish people will be feeling betrayed by the US after the Syrian army, backed by the US and armed by Turkey, launched an offensive ...

The Syrian government under President Ahmad al Sharaa has moved to reassert control over Kurdish-held territories in the country’s north and northeast. Kurds facing pressure both from Damascus and ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both issued dire warnings about the pressing need to protect the endangered Syrian Kurdish population under attack by government ...

The options for the sdf are bleak. Its units are to be dismantled and its fighters integrated into the Syrian army; there will be no Kurdish-majority units. The autonomous administration built during ...

Intensified conflict between the Syrian transition government (STG) and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) poses the most significant threat to Syria’s fragile transition to date. The SDF ...

Ever since former dictator Bashar al-Assad was rushed out of Damascus as his hollowed-out dynastic regime collapsed in December 2024, Syria has existed somewhere between hope and anguish. On the one ...

The Kurdish rebels of Rojava, the northeastern region of Syria, promised a type of revolution that had never been done before. Rather than trying to break the country into ethnic states, they would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Kurdish community and other protesters attend a demonstration against Syrian President Ahmed al‑Sharaa and recent ...