A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa hosted Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander Mazloum Abdi and US Special Envoy to Syria ...

US and Turkish officials tell Syrian Democratic Forces to stop dragging their feet and join Damascus government within weeks ...

A top Syrian official said Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government will not resume talks with U.S.-backed Kurdish forces amid a Turkish offensive against the Kurds in ...

Most of the former insurgent factions also agreed to dissolve and join the new Syrian army and security services, but the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria ...

Ankara threatens action against the Kurdish-led SDF as the US pushes for the group’s integration into a post-regime Damascus.

Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the national army but stood ready to use force should negotiations fail."The ...

In Syria, near the start of the civil war, around 2012, the forces of now-deposed dictator Assad, withdrew from Kurdish-majority areas in northeastern and eastern Syria without much of a fight.

IRBIL, Iraq — In 2014, Kurdish-led forces, aided by U.S. air power, pushed back Islamic State militants who invaded the Syrian city of Kobani. The city of Raqqah — the headquarters of the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The conference to chart Syria’s political future will include all segments of Syrian society except for the Kurdish-led administration in the northeast and loyalists of the ...