US-backed Kurdish fighters withdrew from Aleppo's Sheikh Maksoud and Achrafieh neighborhoods, enhancing a deal with Syria's central government that may merge Kurdish-led forces with the Syrian army.

Syria’s state news agency, SANA, reported that government forces were deployed along the road that SDF fighters will use to ...

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It is blamed on Arab nationalists. 1958 – (SYRIA) The government formally bans all Kurdish-language publications. 1958 – (IRAQ) After Iraq’s 1958 revolution, a new constitution is ...

In return, they have been promised constitutional and language rights. The Syrian interim government signed an agreement on Monday with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that govern ...

A DEM lawmaker there, Mehmet Zeki Irmez, said his party was gathering local opinions on Kurdish political and language rights. "The state should take steps, but unfortunately we cannot feel this ...

Scores of U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters left two neighborhoods in Syria's northern city of Aleppo Friday as part of a deal with the central government in Damascus, which is expanding its authority in ...

At Sirnak's Newroz celebrations last week, Kurds danced and sang folk songs. A DEM lawmaker there, Mehmet Zeki Irmez, said his party was gathering local opinions on Kurdish political and language ...