Local Kurdish fighters in Syria have gained more ground in the northeastern part of the Arab country a day after they announced an interim autonomous government. On Wednesday, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) said that its fighters had pushed back al-Qaeda-affiliated militants in a southern part of the largely Kurdish-populated province of Hasakah ...

A senior Syrian Kurdish leader claims the Turkish government has stopped supporting the Takfiri militant groups operating inside Syria. Salih Muslim, the leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Turkish newspaperTarafon Friday that, Turkey has withdrawn its support for al-Qaeda linked groups al-Nusra and the ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and ...