New US-Backed Kurdish Army Formed in Northern Syria

The Kurds in Syria have formed a new military body named the 'Northern Syria Army' which includes the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the People's Protection Units (YPG) and other groups with the aim of protecting the regions controlled by Kurds in the country.

Turkish forces penetrate into Kobani countryside targeting Kurdish forces

The [so-called] "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" has reported that Turkish forces have penetrated deeply into the western countryside of Kobani, targeting the Kurdish People's Protection Unit's (YPG).

YPG: Turkish army attacked villages of Kobane

YPG (People’s Defense Units) Media Center stated that fascist gang groups operating within the body of Syrian National Coalition continued their joint attacks on Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo.

Syria: Presence of French and German special forces is overt aggression

The Syrian government has accused Germany and France of 'blatant interference' in its affairs by allegedly deploying special forces in its territory.

Report: 150 US Soldiers, Officers Arrive in Syria’s Hasaka Province. The deployment will increase the US forces in Syria to about 300.

The US army has sent tens of military servicemen, including officers, to the Eastern part of Hasaka province today, media reports said.

Syrian Kurds 'preparing to declare self-administration' (Turkey: Syrian Kurds’ unilateral act for federal system to have no ‘validity’)

Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system imminently, a Kurdish official says, as peace negotiations continue to be held in Geneva about how to end the country's five-year war.

Erdogan urged the United States to make a choice between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded from US authorities to decide whom they support: Syrian Kurds and Ankara. On Sunday 7 February according to Associated Press .

Turkey Rounds up More ISIL Suspects, Strikes Kurds in Syria

Turkey pressed on with its "war on terror" on Tuesday, just five days before the country goes to the polls, detaining dozens of ISIL suspects and hitting Kurdish rebels across the border in Syria.

Displacement fears mount as PYD declares new Syria canton

Fresh moves to merge Kobani and Afrin towns in northern Syria by Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) has raised fears of forced displacement among Arab and Turkmen populations in the area, sources on the ground, including a human rights activist and a Syrian Turkmen Assembly member, have told Anadolu Agency.

Turkey: Kurdish leader (Demirtaş) faces probe over deadly protests

Diyarbakir Chief Public Prosecutor has launched an investigation on the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) regarding the deadly October protests across Turkey.

Turkey’s Move against Kurds Means Direct Aid to ISIL/ISIS (Iran Chief of Staff)

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Hasan Firouzabadi warned that Ankara's attacks against the Kurdish forces would backfire on Turkey and eases the Takfiri terrorists' access to the Turkish borders, FNA reported.

‘Terror attack’ hits Turkish-Syrian border town

Initial investigations indicate that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants were responsible for a suicide bomb which killed 30 people in a town near the Syrian border on Monday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

Turkey worried over changing demography in Syria

 Turkey’s National Security Council on Monday expressed its concern about attempts to change the demography in Syria during fighting near the Turkish border.

Syria: Kurdish group PYD 'trying to change demography'

 The pro-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Union Party is being accused of “executing their plan” to change northern Syria’s demography by singling out the country’s Turkmen minority, a Syrian Turkmen politician has claimed.

Kurds drive ISIS militants from Syria’s Kobani

Kurdish forces drove ISIS militants from the Syrian town of Kobane on Saturday, a monitor and activists reported.

US dismisses accusations against Turkey on Kobani blasts

The U.S. accepts Turkey's denial that Daesh militants passed through Turkey in order to conduct bomb attacks in the northern Syrian city of Kobani, a State Department official said Thursday.

ISIS group launches fresh attack in Syrian border city of Kobane

The Islamic State group launched a two-pronged offensive in northern Syria on Thursday after several setbacks, re-entering the symbolic battleground town of Kobane and seizing parts of the city of Hasakeh.

ISIS militant 'surrenders' to Turkey (Army)

A jihadist from the Islamic State (IS) militant group surrendered to the Turkish army on the border between Turkey and Syria, the armed forces said on Saturday.

The IS jihadist "surrendered together with his Kalashnikov (AK-47), seven magazines and 180 cartridges," the army said in a statement...

Barzani visits Sinjar after ISIL siege broken

Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani hailed victories over the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a visit on Dec. 21 to Mount Sinjar, which had been besieged by the militants for months.

Kurds advance against ISIS in Iraq and Syria

Iraqi Kurdish forces pressed on with a vast operation to wrest back swathes of land from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq, including sending scouts into the town of Sinjar, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported on Saturday.