Camps and prisons run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) still hold more than 56,000 detainees with alleged or ...

A L-HOL, Syria—A recent security sweep inside a sprawling fenced refugee camp holding 44,000 people turned up a raft of weapons, dozens of Islamic State militants and a Yazidi woman who had been held ...

Amuda is one of many Syrian border towns that have been under the control of U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. The SDF has been a major U.S. partner in the fight against the Islamic State ...

The 17 women and 33 children, all citizens of Tajikistan, were handed over to a delegation headed by the Tajik ambassador to Kuwait, Zubaydullo Zubaydzoda, Syrian Kurdish officials said.

The Syrian Kurdish-led forces know full well the ... American-made fighter jets were also used against Iranian Kurds by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as he solidified his hold over power shortly ...

Though outsiders often call the SDF "the Syrian Kurds," Holmes focuses on the revolution's Kurdish elements, which she believes are the key to its strength. In fact, Holmes shows that the SDF is a ...

Russia has been pressuring Assad to respond to Turkish overtures, which are primarily underpinned by Ankara"s determination to crush the US-backed Syrian Kurdish statelet in northeast Syria.

The Kurds, with U.S. support, had defeated IS in the northern Syrian city earlier that year. It was the first major defeat of the IS caliphate in Syria and a turning point in the fight against the ...

SYRIAN Kurds brought in compulsory military service for men today to help ward off a push by Islamic State (Isis) extremists in the predominantly Kurdish areas of northern Syria. The decision reflects ...

Turkey is threatening to mount a fresh ground assault against the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria after a wave of airstrikes that left 11 civilians and numerous Kurdish fighters ...

Camps and prisons run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) still hold more than 56,000 detainees with alleged or perceived links to the Islamic State group, five years after the ...