Press TV - A senior US officialhas paid a visit to northern Syria without the permission of Damascus,sayingWashington will keep troops in the territories held by Kurdish militants. State Department representative William Roebucktraveled Saturday to the cities of Manbij and Ayn al-Arab locally known as Kobani, both situated in Aleppo Province,...

Turkey says itswarplanes have carried out more than twodozen airstrikes againstKurdish positions in northern Syria, killing scores of militants. Jets carried out 26 airstrikes againstYPG targets, killing160 to 200 militants, the Turkish army said in a statement on Thursday. The army saidjets hit militant targets in the villages of al-Hasiya,...

Syrian government troops and Kurdish forces, who recently engaged in clashes in Hasakah, have reached an agreement to stop fighting in the contested northeastern Syrian city. According to a statement released on Tuesday by an unidentified Kurdish official, the agreement included "a ceasefire and the withdrawal of all armed forces from the city....

An official from the us Defense Department has said the US no longer delivers weapons to Syrian Kurdish militia the People's Protection Units (YPG), but rather provides arms to the Syrian opposition forces battling the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a policy shift that would soothe the concerns of Turkey, a NATO ally, over the expansion ...

Syrian Kurds are insisting on having their own delegation at next month's peace talks in Geneva. The Kurds say their demands must be heard, as they differ from the governments and the oppositions. Driven by a strong fighting spirit and an urge for sovereignty, the Kurdish influence in the Middle East has been growing little by little. Its in Syria ...

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 ...

Two days of heavy clashes between Kurdish fighters and al-Qaeda-linked militants in northeast Syria have left over 40 dead on both sides. According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the violent clashes between Kurds and militants in the northeastern province of Hasake have left at least 41 people dead on both sides. Most of ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A large number of Syrian Kurds and rebels have been killed in fierce clashes that still continue in the city of Hasaka, FNA reports said Saturday. Units of the Syrian Kurds' Popular Support Committees and anti-government forces havebeen locked in a heavy battle in the city of Hasaka in the last few days, and tens of fighters have ...

Turkey has warned Syrian Kurds against any plans for establishing an autonomous Kurdish region in northern part of Syria. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the warning was delivered by a Turkish official to Salih Muslim, the leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) of Syria, who arrived in Turkey to meet with Turkish intelligence ...