October 2019

Turkey launched airstrikes, fired artillery and began a ground offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Wednesday after U.S. troops pulled back from the area, paving the way for an assault on forces that have long been…

Kurds have been staunch allies in America's struggle against ISIS. Without them, America would have paid a far steeper price in blood and treasure to defeat the brutal outfit. That's why President Trump's move to pull U.S. troops out of…

A series of artillery raids have been carried out by Turkey over the past few hours against Kurdish-Syrian positions in northern Syria, east and west of the Euphrates river, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which quoted…

Turkey's military advanced into a region east of the Euphrates river in northern Syria on Thursday after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered the attack against Kurdish militants leading the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). At least…

The Kurdish-led civilian administration in northeastern Syria issued a “general mobilization” call along the Syrian border with Turkey on Wednesday as Ankara poised for an imminent invasion of the area in the latest major escalation in the…

As Turkish forces began a military operation in the north of Syria, Kurdish SDF leaders scrambled for possible support from the Syrian government in Damascus to help fend off a full-blown Turkish invasion. Kurdish leaders also called on…

A U.S.-backed force and two Syrian activist groups say Islamic State militants have carried out an attack in the city of Raqqa in northern Syria. The early Wednesday attack targeted a post of the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic…

Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit expressed alarm on Wednesday at Turkey's planned military incursion against Syrian Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria. He warned that such an offensive would be a "blatant violation of Syria's…

Daesh (the so-called IS) has claimed a suicide attack on its former Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, heightening Kurdish fears of a militant resurgence if Turkey goes ahead with a threatened invasion. Overnight two Daesh fighters armed with…

A U.S.-backed force and two Syrian activist groups say Islamic State militants have carried out an attack in the city of Raqqa in northern Syria. The early Wednesday attack targeted a post of the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic…