The SDF’s military deterrence against Turkey and the SNA has diminished. It likely will contract to Kurdish-majority areas in Syria’s northeastern tip—a more limited territory than the ...

With Syria’s new government still taking shape, a U.S. abandonment of the SDF could also leave Kurds—who make up about 10 percent of Syria’s population of roughly 23 million—vulnerable to ...

The Kurdish political groups in northern Iraq are not one and the same as the PKK, just as the SDF-YPG is a military-political dominant group in Syria but cannot claim to be the sole ...

Map of Syria showing areas controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels, Kurds and Syrian Democratic Forces, the Syrian government and the National Army. Source: Institute for the Study of War and ...

There are Turkish-backed rebels and Sunni Muslim jihadists in the north, Kurds ruling over much of Syria’s east, and Jordan-backed militants in the south, among others.

That leaves the Kurds. While they have been reliable partners with the United States against ISIS, they control a small ...

Massive wildfires have torn through Syria’s coastal mountain region of Jabal Turkman since Thursday, destroying thousands of ...

Syria has for years been controlled by a patchwork of rebel groups including HTS in Idlib and Kurdish-led groups in the country's north east, some of which have also taken territory in recent days ...

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-brokered ceasefire deal. Regional interests ...

Syrian government forces have lost control of Daraa city, a war monitor said, in another stunning blow for President Bashar al-Assad's rule after rebels wrested other key cities from his grip.Never in ...

Several prominent Syrian minorities — including the Druse, the Alawites and the Kurds — have also formed armed groups of their own. Both the Druse and the Kurds established militias during the ...

The last contenders are the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces , a primarily Kurdish group that occupies territory in northeastern Syria. HTS currently controls most of the territory between the ...