As Bashar al-Assad’s military collapsed late last year, the SNA seized the opportunity to strike against the SDF, forcing it out of Manbij and Tel Rifaat and sending tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians fleeing to safety across the Euphrates.
Newsweek’s Jim LaPorta first reported on Turkey shelling positions in northern ... U.S. forces, however, have not withdrawn from Kobani, DeWalt said. “The United States remains opposed to ...
Rami Abdulrahman, head of the UK-based SOHR, stated that all the victims targeted by the airstrikes were civilians.
The suspension of the USAID program in northern and eastern Syria has affected local institutions and organizations in the region. In Kobani, six local civil society organizations have suspended their activities,
Statements by the Syrian Democratic Forces, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and People's Defense Units on the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Kobani.
You can’t extinguish fire with fire. You can’t address a mistake with another mistake. You have to correct the situation in Syria.”
With the continuation of Turkish attacks, Syrian Kurds are calling on the international community to put pressure on Turkey to end the war in Syria. In recent days, there has been a movement to denounce attacks on the Kurdish region of Syria.
Look - here's a human spine. That's an ISIS spine.' The absurd sentences reverberated in my brain as I turned to see my Kurdish guide holding out a collection of bones he'd dug up from rubble
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Kurdish politician and lawmaker Omer Ocalan, 38, was born eight years after his famous uncle, Abdullah Ocalan, left Turkey for Syria a year after founding the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Clashes in Syria have increased at the Tishrin Dam, a strategic site on the Euphrates River around 30 miles south of the Turkish border controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army,
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants have been trying to capture the Syrian town of Kobani for about a month. On Oct. 7, right after the U.S. started bombing ISIS targets around the ...
Omer immigrated to Canada in 2017, but his connection to his homeland remains strong. Before arriving, he was a vocal critic of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria during the 2000s, opposed ISIS in the 2010s, and resisted Turkey’s military aggression.