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Jacksonville Journal-Courier
April 29, 2018
Cavusoglu meanwhile criticized the United States for supporting Syria's main Kurdish militia, which played a key role in rolling back the Islamic State group and now controls much of northern and eastern Syria. Turkey views the Kurdish fighters as an extension of the Kurdish insurgency raging in itsÃâà...
Xinhua
April 29, 2018
It includes the evacuation of rebels and their families who refuse to reconcile with the government to rebel-held areas in northern Syria, while the militants who want to remain in the three towns will have to reconcile with the government and hand over their weapons. The evacuees will only be allowed toÃâà...
AMN Al-Masdar News
April 27, 2018
Turkish-backed rebels who control Al-Ghandorah have officially blamed Kurdish forces for the attack. ... the correlation between the fall of Afrin in late March to Ankara-backed fighters and the sudden rise of vehicle bomb attacks against nearby towns and cities (in northern Aleppo) held by these militants.
The New Arab
April 26, 2018
Analysis: A group of women linked to IS were detained by Kurdish forces in February, but Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur are working to extradite them, reports Zam Yusa.
Al-Arabiya
April 18, 2018
A Syrian-born German national accused of helping to plan the September 11, 2001 attacks has been detained by Kurdish forces in Syria, a senior Kurdish ... has caught several foreign members of ISIS in Syria in recent months, particularly since the SDF captured the northern city of Raqa from the militants.
Channel NewsAsia
April 16, 2018
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Kurdish militants attacked Turkish security forces in southeast Turkey early on Monday, killing three soldiers and wounding one, security sources said. They said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants staged the attack in the Kuyutepe military base area of Sirnak province.
AMN Al-Masdar News
April 5, 2018
BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:55 P.M.) – Amid what appears to be a rising wave of insurgency against US-backed forces within territory under their control in northern Syria, a new rebel group has come into the spotlight after very recently killing two US-backed fighters. According to opposition sources, this newÃâà...
Voice of America
March 27, 2018
In recent weeks, Iraqi security forces have blamed suspected IS insurgents for several deadly attacks carried out in the disputed areas. Last week, IS propaganda Amaq News Agency said its militants in Kirkuk have killed and injured 103 Iraqi forces and destroyed several armored vehicles since Feb. 19.
NBCNews.com
March 27, 2018
The announcement came two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from Sinjar. The PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state for decades. "We said we would go into Sinjar. Now operations have begun there. The fight is internal andÃâà...
FRANCE 24
March 25, 2018
The long and gruesome war that the Kurds have waged against the Islamic State (IS) group has not only left thousands dead but also produced many prisoners. For the first time, a TV crew has been allowed inside the Kurdish courts, where judges following Kurdish laws try the jihadists behind some of theÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 25, 2018
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Turkish strikes in northern Iraq have killed 91 Kurdish militants in the last week, the armed forces staff declared on Saturday as Turkey continues to target fighters it designates as terrorists. The Turkish armed forces staff said in a tweet that “In the anti-terrorism operation, betweenÃâà...
Olean Times Herald
March 24, 2018
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Sacramento Bee
March 20, 2018
Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish militia as extension of outlawed Kurdish rebels fighting inside Turkey. Addressing ruling ... government. The fighting in Qadam, which is south of Damascus, came as Syrian forces are focused on recapturing the rebel-held eastern Ghouta suburbs of the country's capital.
Al-Arabiya
March 20, 2018
The Czech Republic on Monday said it would not extradite to Turkey a prominent Syrian Kurdish leader who was briefly detained in Prague last month, ... Muslim is wanted by Ankara over a February 2016 attack in Ankara that killed 29 people and the Turkish authorities blamed on Kurdish militants. He hasÃâà...
Al-Manar TV
March 20, 2018
In a statement released on Monday, the political affiliate of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared that “our people will not allow [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan to implement his plan to dominate over northern Syria,” according to media reports. “We assert that the Syrian people will notÃâà...
Herald Sun
March 19, 2018
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South China Morning Post
March 19, 2018
Kurdish militants have vowed to wage a guerilla war against the Turkish military and their Syrian rebel proxies after the latter swept into the northern Syrian ... The rapid fall of Afrin – less than 48 hours after it was surrounded by the advancing Turks and Syrian rebels – belied expectations of a long, gruellingÃâà...
New York Times
March 19, 2018
The seizure of Afrin, a mainly Kurdish city near the Turkish border, came as other Syrian rebel groups appeared close to collapse in the besieged enclave of ... Turkey, one of the main backers of Syrian rebels, has shifted its focus to preventing the Y.P.G., which it considers a terrorist organization, fromÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 7, 2018
The targeting of a veteran KDPI peshmerga forces commander on the outskirts of the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan marks a dangerous escalation in the decadeslong enmity between Iranian Kurdish militants and the Islamic Republic. Iran sees the KDPI and other armed Kurdish groups as existential threats andÃâà...
Daily Herald
March 6, 2018
Turkey has requested that German authorities detain and extradite the Syrian Kurdish politician wanted in the country, Turkey's state-run news agency reported Monday March 5, ... Turkey considers the PYD a terrorist group because of its links to outlawed Kurdish insurgents fighting within its own borders.
The News Tribune
March 6, 2018
Rami Abdurrahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says there has been no letup to the government's assault on the rebel-held ... Syrian Kurdish media say at least 13 civilians were killed in Turkish shelling on the town of Jindaris, as Turkish forces try to press their advances on theÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 6, 2018
Since launching the campaign the Turkish army and allied Syrian rebels have since gained control over the outer edge of Afrin along its border with Turkey. Ankara sees the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insurgency on Turkish soil.
Ahval
March 4, 2018
Former Kurdish-majority Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Salih Muslim has told Euronews that Shia militants in the Syrian region of Afrin were sent with the help of Russia. “We have no agreement or direct communication with the regime,” Muslim said. “Coming to the call to the regime for help, that wasÃâà...
LeaderLive
March 3, 2018
Turkish troops have cleared “terrorists” from a strategic village in the Kurdish-held enclave in north-western Syria, Turkey's prime minister has said. ... the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, from Afrin, considering the group a terrorist organisation, an extension of a Kurdish insurgency within itsÃâà...
ABC News
March 3, 2018
It considers the group a terrorist organization, an extension of a Kurdish insurgency within its own borders. Turkey said ... Near the Syrian capital Damascus, the government continued its offensive against eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held region, despite a Russian-ordered five-hour humanitarian pause. A U.N.Ãâà...
AMN Al-Masdar News
March 3, 2018
BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:20 A.M.) – Video footage has emerged showing the gruesome aftermath of a Kurdish anti-tank missile strike on a vehicle with three Turkish-backed rebels inside it. Based on reports linked to the video and the visual evidence shown in the footage itself, it appears the Kurdish missileÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 1, 2018
Egeland's comments came after the Russian military accused Syria's rebels of shelling a humanitarian corridor that Moscow set up with the Syrian ... The Kumait news agency, close to the Army of Islam rebel group headquartered in Douma, reported that the man and his wife had been living in Syria forÃâà...
New York Times
February 28, 2018
WASHINGTON — The United States-led campaign to hunt down the last pockets of Islamic State militants in Syria has lost its most effective battleground ... The Kurdish-led S.D.F. was the driving force last fall in routing the Islamic State from its self-proclaimed headquarters in Raqqa and chasing insurgentsÃâà...
Al-Monitor
February 20, 2018
An autonomous Kurdish entity on its borders would pose the gravest of security threats, Turkey said. Assad agreed to send forces to the YPG's aid in Afrin, Syrian state news agency SANA said on Feb. 19, after the Kurds had appealed for help to protect the border. Syria has repeatedly blasted the TurkishÃâà...
Haaretz
February 7, 2018
“Man, she's pretty,” one of the Syrian fighters can be heard saying in the shocking video posted last week on social media. The “pretty woman” is Barin Kobani. That's not her real name, it's the nom de guerre of the female Kurdish fighter in the People's Protection Units, which are trying to stop the TurkishÃâà...
Free Malaysia Today
December 31, 1999
German newspaper Die Welt reported earlier this month that some 800 foreign women who joined the IS militant group with their children had been detained by US-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria. The German daily interviewed Human Rights Watch's terrorism and counterterrorism programmeÃâà...
