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Antony Blinken’s Turkey Trip Fails to Stop Onslaught Against U.S.-Allied Kurds in Syria

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia allied with the United States, confirmed on Monday that a brief ceasefire with Turkish Islamist proxies in the country had collapsed due to Turkey's intransigence. The ongoing fighting between the SDF and the Syrian National Army (SNA), an Islamist coalition that evolved from the Free Syrian Army […]

Syrian Kurds Prepare Delegation to HTS Jihadis as Turkish Proxy Assault Continues

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia in northern Syria that played a key role in overthrowing the Islamic State caliphate, sent a delegation to Sunni jihadists in Hayat Tahrir al-Hayat on Thursday. announced that they are preparing to do so. Siam (HTS), the group currently in charge of the country. HTS is an […]

Syrian Kurds Say They Stopped Fighting ISIS After Turkish Proxies Attacked

The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the country's Kurdish-led militia allied with the United States, said in an interview on Wednesday that his forces have increased their efforts against Islamic State in light of continued attacks against the Kurds. He said it had stopped. by Turkish proxy forces. The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army […]

Syrian Rebels Execute Opponents, Impose Sharia, Threaten Kurds

Syrian rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship on Sunday are reportedly using Islamic coercion to execute opponents. sharia It threatens law-abiding non-Muslim minorities, including the Kurds in the north. Videos circulating on social media show Syrian rebels killing regime officials, some of whom may have been members of state security services and others who appear […]

Turkey Urges Victorious Syrian Jihadis to Turn Against Kurds

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday urged the al-Qaeda-linked jihadist rebels who overthrew Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to consider cooperating with Turkish forces against the Kurds. Fidan: “Rebels must unite now” said — which meant all “rebels” except the Kurds. “We hope that they can come together and start working in an orderly manner […]

Pro-Turkey Jihadis Take Advantage of Chaos to Attack Kurds in Syria

The Syrian National Army (SNA), a paramilitary group with ties to Turkey and formerly known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), has been forced into action after jihadists from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) were killed. , launched an attack on Kurdish forces in Syria's Aleppo province this weekend. It reportedly laid siege to the city […]

Pentagon must provide air defense for Kurds

As tensions rise across the Middle East, one of America’s most stable and reliable regional allies, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, is in danger. Hostile nation states and extremist militias threaten our democratic way of life and the safety of U.S. troops and diplomats on our soil. Kurdish Peshmerga fighters alone are ill-equipped to handle […]

Kurds Protest Across Turkey as Court Sentences Presidential Hopeful to 42 Years in Prison

Kurdish citizens staged protests across Turkey after a court sentenced Selahattin Demirtas, former co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and two-time presidential candidate, to 42 years in prison. . To quell Kurdish anger, authorities in 20 states banned demonstrations, social gatherings and public events for four days. Demirtas, 51, has been in prison […]