Unfortunately, Turkey's military aggression risks not just destroying the democratic governing model for Syria that Kurds established, but also reversing all the gains made against ISIS.

The Kurdish YPG militia, which heads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), should stop "playing for time" and ...

Trump said Turkey is now responsible for guarding ISIS prisoners in Syria. U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Turkey’s military offensive on Syrian-Kurdish fighters “a bad idea ...

The SDF was formed in 2015 with US backing. They include a group called the YPG, which is a Kurdish group that has been fighting ISIS. Turkey views the YPG as the Syrian branch of the PKK.

Turkey Prepares To Intensify Attacks in Syria on Kurds, Who Are Allied With America Silence over Turkey’s attacks against Kurds is nearly universal, from the halls of the United Nations to America’s ...

The push to recruit ethnic and religious minorities comes as the government in Damascus faces increased scrutiny after ...

Across the border in Syria, an offshoot militia, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, has been active since 2004. The militia, known as the Y.P.G., has long sought to form an autonomous state ...

Turkey’s military strike on Wednesday against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria — a group long regarded as the United States’ most reliable Syrian partner in its fight against the Islamic ...

Russia says Kurds complete withdrawal from Turkish border Trump tweets that U.S. has killed al-Baghdadi's 'number one' replacement Q&A: Why Turkey invaded Kurds in Syria ...

Turkey considers the Kurdish militias who helped the U.S. defeat ISIS in Syria to be terrorists, and for years Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has wanted to push them back from his southern ...

Turkey justifies its recent invasion of northern Syria by claiming that the Kurdish party in Syria, the Democratic Union Party, or PYD, is a threat. There are close ties between the PKK and the ...