where the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) has seized control. Map by Joe Schueller. Kurdish forces are also preparing to defend against possible Turkish attacks on Kobani, a Kurdish ...

How these two actors—HTS and the SDF—navigate their divergent interests and goals will shape Syria’s future political map ... the SDF to maintain its control of Kurdish-majority ...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have announced an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate ...

The attack shifted lines of control that have ... the single biggest chunk of Syria. The United States has forces in the northeast and east, backing the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.

Here's a map showing who controls ... The Turkish-backed SNA forces and Kurdish SDF forces were fighting for control of the strategic northern Syrian city of Manbij, before they reached a US ...

While they have been reliable partners with the United States against ISIS, they control ... map via its proxies. While Turkey vehemently opposes the nationalist aspirations of Syria’s Kurds ...

Syria has for years been controlled by a patchwork of rebel groups including HTS in Idlib and Kurdish-led groups in ... moving south to take control of the city of Hama last Thursday.

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country's Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad.

The new authorities in Syria, who replaced the overthrown Bashar al-Assad in December, have repeatedly rejected the idea of Kurdish autonomy. The US-backed Kurds control large areas of ...

Syria's Kurdish parties on Saturday adopted a joint political vision calling for a "decentralised democratic" state in Syria with guarantees for Kurdish rights. Their statement came at the end of ...