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Washington’s Syrian mistake: Empowering HTS, endangering Kurds - opinion

History will record who stood by democratic values at this critical moment and who sacrificed these values for short-term interests.

|ByAMED MARDIN
A member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands guard as Syrian Kurds attend a protest in solidarity with people in Sweida, on July 17, 2025.
SDF arrests a five-man ISIS terror cell north of Raqqa, November 1, 2025.

Syrian Democratic Forces arrest five ISIS cell members in Raqqa raid

The raid was supported by the US-led coalition against ISIS, who provided air cover and intelligence, leading to the arrest of the terror cell which had planned attacks in northeast Syria.

|ByJAMES GENN
A demonstrator holds a picture of jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Diyarbakir, Turkey, February 27, 2025.

Turkey’s old trick: Keeping Kurds off the new Mideast map - opinion

Strengthening ties between the Kurds and Israel could counterbalance Turkish and Iranian ambitions, promote regional stability, and redefine power dynamics in the Middle East.

|ByLOQMAN RADPEY
WOMEN TAKE PART in a rally demanding that the new Islamist rulers in Damascus respect women’s rights and condemn Turkish-backed military campaigns in Kurdish-led regions of the north, in the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria, last month. If any ethnic group deserves justice, it is the Kurds.

What will Turkey do with Syria's Kurdish population? - opinion

Although Erdogan might deplore the effect on Turkey’s domestic political scene, he may yet see an autonomous Kurdish region recognized within a new Syrian constitution.

|ByNEVILLE TELLER

Syrian rebels enter northern city of Manbij, Turkish source says

Manbij city is some 30 km (19 miles) south of the Turkish border and to the west of the Euphrates River.

DECEMBER 8, 2024ByREUTERS
A group of U.S. Soldiers observe Turkish military forces on the other side of the demarcation line outside Manbij, Syria, August 11, 2018.

The Kurds are serving as the world’s jailers - opinion

It suits the world to leave the Kurds running the camps and acting as prison guards.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022ByNEVILLE TELLER
SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC Forces (SDF) fighters take part in a funeral in Syria’s northeastern city of Hasakeh last Friday for members of the group killed in clashes during a jailbreak attempt by the Islamic State (IS) group at the Ghwayran prison in the eponymous province.

Behind the Lines: Rojava sundown - a retrospective

Islamic State, that most malignant expression of the Sunni Islamist trend, was the natural enemy of this emergent Kurdish autonomy.

OCTOBER 18, 2019ByJONATHAN SPYER
YPG FIGHTERS on a rooftop in Sere Kaniye/Ras al Ain in 2013

IDF vets organize pro-Kurdish protest in Tel Aviv

A YPG representative is expected to participate in the protest.

OCTOBER 15, 2019ByLEON SVERDLOV
Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) run across a street in Raqqa, Syria

Two senators reach across the aisle to tackle the Syria nightmare

The pushback Trump got from Democrats and Republicans alike in the wake of his abandonment of the Kurds would be tenfold were he to throw Israel to the wolves.

OCTOBER 13, 2019ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
U.S. President Donald Trump attends Young Black Leadership Summit at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 4, 2019

Turkey’s Syria gambit show U.S. responds to threats and strength

Ankara deployed military forces and boasted that it would soon launch a military attack.

AUGUST 9, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, October 23, 2018

Iraq’s Kurdish region alarmed by U.S. withdrawal

Discussions to try and soften Ankara’s stance, dilute PKK role in eastern Syria came to naught.

DECEMBER 20, 2018BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A KURDISH peshmerga soldier stands at a lookout near Bashiqa in northern Iraq

Traveler in Kurdistan

Pointing a lens at one of the Middle East’s least understood groups.

DECEMBER 8, 2016ByARIEL DOMINIQUE HENDELMAN
Not as risky or adventurous as one might think: ‘Yehuda’ discusses his recent trip to Iraqi Kurdistan, at the Abraham Hostel

What is preventing Kurdish independence?

If Kurds find a way to be a key US ally against Iran, the situation might change radically.

NOVEMBER 19, 2016ByFUAD SHAHBAZOV
Kurdish peshmerga forces on the way to Mosul

Iran: Dictatorship inside, instability outside

we believe there is a strategic convergence between the interests of nations inside Iran and the region’s main actors that can bring a new order to the Middle East.

JUNE 30, 2016ByMUSTAFA HIJRI
Turkish Kurds look towards the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani from the top of a hill close to the border line between Turkey and Syria near Mursitpinar bordergate

Kurdistan’s economic woes

Salaries for the Peshmerga is not the only vital area where funds have gone dry.

APRIL 9, 2016ByGLENN FIELD
Syrian Kurds from Kobani walk to the border fences as seen from the Turkish border town of Suruc