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Turkey fears a deepening ethnic fracture in Syria could redraw the regional map — and embolden its own Kurdish population.
Clashes that shook southern Syria this week killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drew in an array of local and ...
The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the ...
A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging forces after the latest ...
Turkey, which shares a 910-kilometer (565-mile) border with Syria, views the Syrian Kurdish militias that make up the key component of the U.S.-allied, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF ...
Turkey believes Syria's new rulers, including the Syrian National Army (SNA) armed group which Ankara backs, will drive Kurdish YPG fighters from all territory they occupy in northeastern Syria ...
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday that Ankara is closely monitoring an agreement between the Syrian government and a U.S-backed Kurdish-led armed group, expressing concern over ...
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan threatened this week to launch attacks against Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria. During an interview broadcast late Tuesday, he said that if the US ...
(MORE: 5 Ways Syria Can Get Even Worse) Turkey’s chief concern is that the single most powerful organization among Syrian Kurds, the PYD, has close ties to the PKK, a separatist group listed as ...
Syria Biden missing in action as Turkey inches closer to full-blown war against US-allied Kurds in Syria ‘Leave the Kurds alone. The Kurds are America's friends… most responsible for ...
While Turkey vehemently opposes the nationalist aspirations of Syria’s Kurds due to its own sizable Kurdish population, it must also recognize the Kurds’ value in the fight against extremist ...