Turkey and the Syrian militia groups it supports took control of Afrin in March 2018 following a military campaign against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). The militia groups ...

Anadolu Agency has filmed the terrifying moments of the civilians targeted by YPG/PKK terrorists in an Afrin village in northwestern Syria on March 9. The footage -- captured by Humammed Hac ...

Turkey and the Syrian militia groups it supports took control of Afrin in March 2018 following a military campaign against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). The militia groups ...

Operation Olive Branch was launched on Jan. 20 to clear YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorist groups from Afrin in northwestern Syria amid growing threats from the region. The operation is being carried out ...

Afrin borders Turkey, and the Turkish government considers the YPG to be a terrorist organization due to its ties and ideological similarities to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been ...

The Turkish military offensive launched in January to clear the Afrin region and its town centre of any Syrian-Kurd PYD/YPG presence proved to be an unrivalled success, not only in military but ...

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"I have no information about the current presence of the Syrian army in Afrin," he said. On February 19, Firat News Agency reported that the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) will yield the ...

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’s incursion against the Syrian Kurdish militant group the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, has opened a new phase in the seven-year conflict. To Ankara, the YPG are terrorists; ...

Turkey's Ihlas news agency had reported earlier that the YPG fighters launched intensive gunfire with heavy machine guns around 9.30pm (1830 GMT) on Tuesday evening from the Afrin region in ...

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 ...