Northeast Syria, he said, is enduring a silent tragedy. The region is struggling to cope with the influx of internally ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday he hoped President Donald Trump would end U.S. cooperation with the ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

The defence ministry said the militants belonged to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. Turkey regards the PKK and YPG to be identical, while the ...

The remains of a convoy in Syria hit by a Turkish airstrike in December 2024, which Ankara claims was carrying missiles to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. (EPA Images pic) Turkey said on Sunday it ...

DOHA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday he hoped President Donald Trump would end U.S. cooperation with the Syrian Kurdish YPG, as Turkey continued its ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday he hoped President Donald Trump would end US cooperation with the Syrian Kurdish YPG, as Turkey continued its military campaign against the ...

and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. Turkey considers the PKK and YPG to be identical; the United States considers them separate groups, having banned the PKK as terrorists but recruited the YPG as ...

As it has for a century, however, the Turkish government remains a major impediment to Kurdish ambitions. It is a major backer of the post-Assad Syrian authority, with which the YPG will need to ...