US ties Syria sanctions relief to crackdown on extremists, foreign militants
The United States has tied future sanctions relief for Syria’s transitional government to its willingness to crack down on extremist ...
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Women’s rights missing from new Syrian draft constitution, says Kurdish official
A senior official from the Women’s Committee of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has criticised a ...
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Yazidi man rescued 11 years after ISIS abduction
A young Yazidi man abducted by Islamic State (ISIS) militants as a child in 2014 has been freed in eastern ...
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Attacks on Syria’s Alawites part of broader destabilisation effort, says AANES’s Foza Yusif
Foza Yusif, a senior official of the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), has claimed that communities ...
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Damascus forces join SDF at Tishreen Dam to enforce ceasefire, strengthen security
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian caretaker government convened their second meeting in al-Hasakah (Hesekê) on Saturday, ...
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Erdoğan, Trump and Netanyahu – last week in Kurdish news
Sarah Glynn Today I will look at two meetings. The meeting on Monday between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu ...
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Turkey’s former education minister condemns state’s racist stance on Kurdish rights
Hüseyin Çelik, a founder member of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) and a former minister of education, has accused ...
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Syrian negotiations, between a rock and a hard place – last week in Kurdish news
Sarah Glynn Negotiating a future in Syria’s political jungle demands a rare combination of patience, determination and understanding. This week ...
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SDF’s Mazloum Abdi meets delegation from Armenian Orthodox Archdiocese to discuss coexistence, stability
General Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), welcomed Archbishop Levon Yeghiayan of the Armenian Orthodox Archdiocese of ...
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Syrian groups oppose new cabinet over lack of diversity
The Kurdish-led North and East Syria Democratic Autonomous Administration (AANES) has opposed the new 22-member cabinet announced by Syria’s transitional ...
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