HASAKAH, Syria—Inside a sprawling facility in northern Syria this summer, a group of U.S.-backed Kurdish special forces trained a cadre of their next generation of fighters. All of them were women.

To a visitor, it seems like a curious bit of territory for the Turkish military and the Kurds to be fighting over: steep rocky hills covered in brown windblown grass divided by patches of green ...

CAIRO, July 29. /TASS/. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is ready to integrate with the new Syrian government’s army but understands that this process will take time, SDF commander ...

HASSAKEH, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government and the main Kurdish-led force in the country’s northeast have agreed in principle on a plan to merge the U.S.-backed force as a cohesive group into the ...

The Euphrates River is a simmering front line in the struggle for the new Syria. It separates the country’s two largest armed camps, marking the physical divide between clashing visions for the future ...

Turkey sent 10,000 elite soldiers to their border with Iraq to attack Kurdish militants who killed 24 soldiers and wounded 18 on Wednesday. The retaliation is the nation's largest offensive against ...

Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi has announced to AFP that he had reached a "preliminary agreement" with Damascus on the ...