The new Syrian government in Damascus sent a convoy of vehicles from the General Security Department to Afrin, a historically ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Dozens of people have been abducted in northwest Syria’s Kurdish enclave Afrin in just over a month, a local watchdog said on Saturday. In the past couple of days ...

In Kilis province, which borders Syria, the Serhat newspaper said that olive oil from Afrin would reduce the price of local products. "The little we earn from olives will come to an end ...

Thousands of Kurds have been returning to the northwest city of Afrin, after they were displaced over six years ago during ...

A number of Kurds in Afrin welcomed the visiting forces, raising the flags of Kurdistan and Syria to express their joy about the possibility that various armed factions could cede control of the ...

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In 2018, Turkey launched a military operation into Afrin and backed the Syrian National Army (SNA) to run the district. The deployment by Damascus appears to represent a significant shift after five ...

25km west of Afrin area to enable trucks to transport olive and other items from Syria, which constitutes an act of pillage against national wealth and property. Establishing an illegal land ...

"We are determined, Afrin will be sorted out ... Army (FSA), crossed into northern Syria on Sunday as part of its offensive - called "Operation Olive Branch" - to push out the Kurdish People's ...

Olive Branch led to the occupation of Afrin, a Kurdish enclave in northwest Syria, and Peace Spring was an incursion into northeast Syria, another rebuff to U.S. support for the Kurdish-led Syrian ...

According to Syria’s Al-Watan daily, since Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch started on January ... troops were shelling settlements north of Afrin, where the YPG positions were located.