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 ...

After the start of Syria's civil war in 2011, a Kurdish armed group - the People's Protection Units (YPG) - established control over Kurdish areas of northern Syria, along with its political ...

Ocalan’s statement could also have far-reaching regional implications, especially in Syria, where a PKK-affiliated Kurdish militia called the People’s Protection Units (YPG) forms the backbone ...

The Syrian Kurdish groups established a system of governance shaped by Ocalan's ideas in Kurdish-majority regions of the north. The YPG's influence expanded as it allied with the U.S.-led ...

The PKK has not yet reacted to the call, but the Syrian Kurdish YPG, the spearhead of a key U.S. ally against Islamic State in Syria that Ankara views as an extension of the PKK, has said Ocalan's ...

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 ...