Residents of the Kurdish city of Afrin in northwest Syria were able to freely celebrate Newroz (the New Year) for the first ...

AFRIN, Syria - Kurds from Afrin in northwest Syria are returning to the city after years of displacement only to face ...

On Sunday, rumors began to circulate on Kurdish and Arabic media that the YPG had come to an agreement to allow the deployment of Syrian regime forces in Afrin. Afriin is located in a mountainous ...

When asked if Turkiye would still intervene in Syria despite the US support for the YPG, Fidan said: “We did it in the past ...

Asked if Turkey would still intervene in Syria despite the United States' support for the YPG, Fidan said: "We did it in the past in Afrin, in Ras al-Ayn and in Tal Abyad," referring to locations ...

Turkey launched an air and ground assault last month in Syria's northwest Afrin region to drive the YPG from the area south of its border. Ankara considers the YPG to be an arm of the PKK ...

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent state in Syria amid the chaos gripping the region, it could accelerate secessionist movements in other Kurdish areas of the Middle East.

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Ankara also launched military operations against the SDF in 2019 and the YPG near Afrin in 2018. While SDF leader Mazloum Abdi has welcomed the Ocalan statement on the PKK, he has also said it does ...

Afrin was liberated from YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists in March of last year during Turkey's Operation Olive Branch. "So we supplied [since then] hot meals to a million people; we gave 5 million ...

According to media reports, Turkish aircraft carried out strikes on more than 170 targets in Afrin. Sky News Arabia said that six civilians and three YPG fighters had been killed in the strikes.

"PKK, YPG, PYD are same; changing names does not change ... military operation against those groups in the Syrian district of Afrin. On Friday, Turkey’s defense authority confirmed the military ...