A Kurdish-led rebel coalition which dominates north-eastern Syria has signed a deal with the interim government in Damascus. The agreement, which means the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday that Ankara is closely monitoring an agreement between the Syrian ...

The Turkish government views the biggest militia in the SDF, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), as a terrorist organisation. It says it the YPG is an extension of the banned Kurdistan ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed ... cross-border operations against the YPG militia that spearheads the SDF ...

The SDF is spearheaded by the YPG militia, a group that Ankara sees as an extension of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants who have fought the Turkish state for 40 years. Turkey regards the ...

It is dominated, however, by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as an offshoot of the PKK. The Turkish government, which is close to Syria's new authorities ...

Picture: AFP The SDF – seen essential in the fight against Islamic State jihadists – is dominated by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as an offshoot of the PKK ...

QAMISHLI, Syria March 9 (Reuters) - The commander of a Kurdish-led force in Syria said on Sunday the country's interim president must hold the perpetrators of communal violence in Syria's coastal ...

He has become incensed too by what he views as Washington’s betrayal when Turkey’s Nato ally extended aerial and material support to the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) defending Kobane ...