This is Beirut, 07/10 22:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Syria announced a comprehensive ceasefire with Kurdish forces after a meeting on Tuesday between Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi that followed deadly clashes in the northern city of Aleppo. Syria's authorities, who took power last year after overthrowing Bashar al-Assad, have rejected Kurdish demands for a ...
This is Beirut, 25/09 17:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said that an attack on Thursday by Islamic State group militants in Syria's east killed five of its members. IS jihadists, once in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria, were territorially defeated in Syria in 2019 in a battle spearheaded by the SDF with support from an international ...
This is Beirut, 17/09 16:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Kurds Syrian Democratic Forces
Thousands of people in Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syria rallied Wednesday in support of their autonomous administration and called for decentralization as negotiations with Damascus over the region's future stall. Damascus and Syria's Kurds have been in talks to integrate Kurdish civil and military institutions into the central government ...
This is Beirut, 03/09 14:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syrian Kurdish forces said Wednesday they thwarted an escape attempt by more than 50 inmates of Al-Hol camp, which holds people suspected of ties to the Islamic State (IS) group. Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have run camps hosting thousands of suspected jihadists and their families since the jihadist group lost its last territory in ...
This is Beirut, 24/08 11:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria's Kurds on Sunday criticised the upcoming selection of members of a new transitional parliament as undemocratic, after authorities postponed the process for Kurdish-controlled areas in the north and northeast. After toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December, Syria's new authorities dissolved the parliament and adopted a temporary ...
This is Beirut, 12/08 16:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Kurds Syrian Democratic Forces Ahmad al-Sharaa
Syria's foreign minister and a senior official in the country's Kurdish administration have met in Damascus, sources from both sides told AFP on Tuesday, days after the government boycotted talks in France. Damascus had said it would not participate in the Paris talks after the Kurds hosted a meeting last week involving Syria's Druze and Alawite ...
This is Beirut, 25/07 21:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria France Kurds Ahmad al-Sharaa
Syria, France, and the United States said they agreed Friday to convene "as soon as possible" talks in Paris to integrate the autonomous Kurdish administration into the Syrian state. The Kurds, who control large swathes of northeast Syria, are negotiating with the central government in Damascus on the integration of their civil and military ...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, 22/07 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Syria Middle East Druze Kurds United States
Self-determination in the Middle East is inconsistent. For Muslim Palestinians, statehood is seen as an unfulfilled destiny. Yet for religious minorities like the Druze or ethnic groups like the Kurds, pursuing sovereignty is branded as betrayal or capitulation to imperialism. There’s no clear logic to why Israel should be divided into two ...
This is Beirut, 11/07 18:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Kurdish PKK militants want to return to Turkey and enter democratic politics, one of the group's joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the fighters began destroying their arms at a ceremony in Iraq. In an interview with AFP, Bese Hozat, one of the Kurdish militant group's two top leaders, also warned the fragile peace process risked being ...
This is Beirut, 11/07 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will start laying down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, two months after the militant group ended its armed struggle against the Turkish state. The move comes in response to a historic call by jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan in February, urging them to end their decades-long ...
Sarah Martin, 09/07 17:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Turkey Kurds PKK Abdullah Öcalan Disarmament
More than four decades after the start of an armed insurgency that has claimed over 45,000 lives, an announcement made on July 9, 2025, could mark a decisive turning point in Turkey’s modern history. Speaking from his isolated prison cell on the island of Imrali, Abdullah Öcalan, the historic leader and founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...
This is Beirut, 07/07 17:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey PKK Kurds Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish DEM party Monday to discuss the next steps after PKK militants agreed to end their decades-long insurgency. DEM, Turkey's third-biggest party, has played a key role in facilitating an emerging peace deal between the government and jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan, whose ...