A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet ...

In late 2015, the new administration formally established an armed wing called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF ... Iran and Hezbollah, his government entered into a detente with the Rojava.

IDF announces new attacks on Syrian military capabilities • Attack is first since US mixed decision regarding new regime ...

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is a Kurdish-dominated ... Iran, Russia, and the Shia Islamist militia Hezbollah backed the Assad regime. Various state parties, including Turkey ...

HUSSEIN MALLA / AP The "Islamic nationalists" of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS, the "Levant Liberation Organization"), who have become Syria's new leading force; the Syrian National Army (SNA ...

The Kurdish YPG militia, which leads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF ... ceasefire push 6:42 PM UTC Middle Eastcategory With Hezbollah weakened, Lebanon to hold presidential vote ...

The Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-supported ... Syrian territory to transport weapons to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. During the U.S. occupation of Iraq, Assad turned Damascus ...

Hezbollah was central to Iran’s strategy in Syria ... transferring control to the Syrian Democratic Forces, whose personnel and command structure are primarily Kurdish. This move signaled Iran’s ...

Washington switched horses and made the Syrian Democratic Forces, of which the US-backed Kurdish nationalist People’s Protection Units (YPG) are the backbone, its main proxy force. When the US ...

"We will absolutely not allow there to be weapons in the country outside state control, whether from the revolutionary factions or the factions present in the SDF area", he added, referring to the ...

The northern border with Turkey is controlled by either the FSA or anti-Turkish Kurds of the U.S.-supported Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF ... past year its Alawite, Hezbollah, and Hamas allies ...

Iran needed Assad to remain in power so that it could use Syria as a staging ground to fund and arm its proxies and partners, especially the Lebanese group Hezbollah. For Russia, Assad's rule ...