Syria's government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces agreed a new ceasefire on January 20 as Washington said the SDF's purpose in fighting Islamic State group jihadists was largely over. Th...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree on Friday declaring Kurdish a "national language", in an apparent gesture of good will towards the minority following clashes in recent days. The decre...
Syria's government is trying to forcefully absorb a Syrian Kurdish paramilitary group that once controlled much of the country's northeast. The fight ultimately comes down to a clash about Syria's fut...
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said they had to withdraw from the al-Hol camp, which holds thousands of Islamic State fighters' relatives, to redeploy elsewhere. It's the second such pullout...
The deal follows advances by the Syrian military into northern and eastern areas previously under the control of Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF. DW has the latest....
The deal follows advances by the Syrian military into northern and eastern areas previously under the control of Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF. DW has the latest....
The past week's fighting between the Syrian army and Syrian Kurdish paramilitaries shows how difficult the military integration of the two will be to achieve....
The US thanked Iraq for its cooperation to transfer up to 7,000 prisoners out of Syria, after the Kurdish-led SDF lost control over the territory where the prisoner camps were held....
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a ceasefire agreement on Sunday with Mazloum Abdi, the chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, following the Syrian government's advance into Kurd...
Advance in northern Syria marks dramatic escalation of clashes between government and militia...
German cities saw large pro-Kurdish demonstrations on Tuesday as government troops in Syria clash with Kurdish forces....
François Picard is pleased to welcome Kurdish humanitarian activist Arya Jemo amid the rapidly shifting sociopolitical and economic dynamics in Syria. Mr. Jemo shares themes of political betrayal, ter...
Civilians fled a Kurdish-held region of northern Syria on Friday before a deadline set by the army, which seeks to expand its control over the area after driving Kurdish forces from Aleppo. The govern...
A day after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) agreed to quit large parts of Syria under a ceasefire, the Syrian army said "a number of" Islamic State (IS) group prisoners, who had been un...
A day after a sweeping deal was announced between the Syrian government and the country's main Kurdish-led force, the agreement appeared to be falling apart Monday. After new outbreaks of clashes Mond...
The Syrian government Sunday announced a ceasefire with the Syrian Democratic Forces, taking almost full control of the country and dismantling the Kurdish-led forces that controlled the northeast for...
The U.S. military launched a third round of retaliatory strikes in Syria on Friday, killing a leader with ties to an ambush attack by an ISIS gunman, officials said....
The Syrian army continues to push against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), reportedly capturing major oil and gas fields in eastern Syria....
Syria on Tuesday announced a ceasefire with Kurdish forces it ‌has seized swathes of territory from in the northeast and gave them four days to agree on integrating into the central state, which their...
Since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December 2024, one of the huge challenges the new government has faced is that of division. Syrian society is made up of different sectarian and ethnic groups -- t...