The new Syrian government in Damascus sent a convoy of vehicles from the General Security Department to Afrin, a historically ...
Syria’s government has only a handful of leftover Syrian regime equipment, such as old tanks that date from the 1990s or the ...
Thousands of Kurds have been returning to the northwest city of Afrin, after they were displaced over six years ago during ...
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 ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad condemned the incursion, saying: "The brutal Turkish aggression" on Afrin was part of Ankara's policy of "support for terrorism" in Syria. Russia - a key ally of ...
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 ...
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 ...
The group, a former al-Qaeda affiliate that rules much of northwestern Syria, took control of the villages of Basufan, Qabasin and Fafertin in the southern Afrin region on Saturday night and sent ...
Kobane, Syria, was home to one of the most famous military turning points in history. A small force of ... under Turkish and SNA control, such as Afrin, where the same forces have committed ...
"I regard the Kurds as the lions of the Middle East for one cannot forget how they were the first to bravely stand against ...
suggesting that Turkish troops "remove themselves" from Afrin and said the Turks "ought to be mindful of the potential for escalation as they move into Syria and Afrin." Erdogan has threatened to ...