Kurdish controlled syria
Iraq's PM arrives in Washington as US presses Baghdad on Iran-backed militias - analysis
Iraq is already a kind of frontline between the US and Iran. After the US and Israel began strikes on Iran on February 28, the Iranians operationalized militias in Iraq.
The strategic misjudgment of the Kurdish factor in Iran’s war - opinion
Syria’s limited Kurdish election exposes limits of Damascus’s democratic transition - analysis
Petty clashes over a sign in Syria risk snowballing into real conflict
Turkey, Russia agree on Syrian Kurdish YPG withdrawal, joint patrols
Six days later, Russian and Turkish forces will jointly start to patrol a narrower, 10 km strip of land in the "safe zone" that Ankara has long sought in northeast Syria.
Help fleeing Kurds
If Israel can facilitate treatment there, in third countries or in Israel, this would be a place where lives can be saved.
U.S. senators, Kurdish leader call for Turkey sanctions
Turkey's offensive has displaced some 300,000 people and led to 120 casualties among civilians and 470 among SDF fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
Uprooted by war, Kurdish families stuck at Syria-Iraq border crossing
Now all they want is to reach neighboring Iraq.
Arab leadership disputes claims of YPG oppression of locals
This account is now being called into dispute by local Arab leaders. The original affidavit has been translated from Arabic to English.
U.S. and Turkey agreed to a ceasefire in Syria, says Pence
Pompeo to meet Netanyahu in Jerusalem Friday
Turkey detains four Kurdish mayors in dawn raids
The HDP said 151 of its members, including district officials, had been detained over the past week since Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies launched the assault.
Chief Rabbi: We must do all in our power to help the Kurdish people
The rabbinate said that it is Israel's moral duty to act on this matter immediately before it is too late for the Kurdish people.
Crisis Group: ISIS could stage comeback amid Syria crisis
Syria is not a vacuum and when ISIS makes progress in Syria it will affect Iraq. “ISIS continues its guerilla insurgency in rural areas,” the report notes.
Turkey intensifies Syria campaign as Islamic State strikes Kurds
The Kurds, who recaptured swathes of northeastern Syria from Islamic State with the backing of the United States, say the Turkish assault could allow the jihadist group to re-emerge.
