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Syrian troops consolidate hold after abrupt Kurdish withdrawal
Syrian government troops tightened their grip on Monday across a swathe of northern and eastern territory abruptly abandoned the
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pro-Kurd protesters hold flags with portraits of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan. February 16, 2019. (photo credit: REUTERS/VINCENT KESSLER) The decision by ...
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Armed Kurdish fighters try to breach Iran border as regional threat grows amid protests: reports
Turkey's intelligence agency, MIT, warned Iran's Revolutionary Guard about Kurdish fighters trying to cross the Iran-Iraq border during ongoing government crackdowns.
Talk of restarting KRI exports via Ceyhan is premature—Turkey hasn’t agreed and the Kirkuk–Ceyhan line remains shut since Mar 25, 2023. Any restart hinges on a Turkey–Baghdad deal, not the KRG. Post-2017 referendum fears of Kurdish independence ...
Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the rebel group he founded to fight for a Kurdish homeland. On March 1st, two days after Mr Ocalan called on the ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish National Council (ENKS/KNC), an umbrella group of Kurdish opposition parties in northeast Syria (Rojava), on Sunday welcomed a decree issued by Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa allegedly to guarantee certain Kurdish rights,
Turkish security sources said on Monday that an integration deal between Syria's government and Kurdish forces marked an "historic turning point" ahead of which Turkey's intelligence agency played an intensive role to ensure restraint by parties on the ground.