As Bashar al-Assad’s military collapsed late last year, the SNA seized the opportunity to strike against the SDF, forcing it ...

The defeat of the jihadists in Kobani brought a breakthrough in the war against IS in 2015. There was a spirit of optimism among the Kurds at the time. However, this has long since evaporated in ...

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Statements by the Syrian Democratic Forces, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and People's Defense Units on ...

"The war is not over," he said. On January 10, for the second time in just a few days, Turkish aircraft targeted silos in Sarrin, south of Kobani. In another sector, the Turkish army escalated its ...

Turkish drones and warplanes hovered during the protest, with airstrikes targeting areas near the march route, according to participants and a war monitor. The health administration in Kobani ...

The siege of Kobani from September 2014 until January 2015 and its heroic defense by Kurdish forces in northern Syria was the turning point in the war against the Islamic State. Now, with the fall ...

Israel, which has launched hundreds of airstrikes over Syria since the country's uprising turned-civil war broke out in 2011 ... northern border town of Kobani, which is under the control of ...

Mahmut Ağca, a senior figure working as an “intelligence officer” in the terrorist group PKK, was eliminated in Syria by the ...

However, doing so with the SDF has proved challenging. The United States considers the group a key ally against ISIL (ISIS), but neighbouring Turkiye regards it as a national security threat linked to ...

according to participants and a war monitor. The health administration in Kobani said the strikes killed five civilians and injured 15 others. Turkey, for its part, accused the Kurdish-led Syrian ...