SDF commander Mazloum Abdi says he welcomes Israeli support to protect Kurdish achievements, as regional tensions and security challenges persist.

Tishreen Dam, on the Euphrates river, has become a flashpoint in the conflict between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army

The leader of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, said Thursday that they should be integrated into the new Syrian army, not dissolved. "A new Syria is forming, a new state is under construction,

The commander of the Kurdish-led forces that control northeastern Syria said that a call by the leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey for the PKK to dissolve did not apply to the group he leads.

Assad's regime never recognised it and, despite his fall from power, its future remains uncertain. As well as more than a decade of civil war, the Syrian Kurds have faced years of conflict with its northern neighbour,

While SDF leader Mazloum Abdi welcomed Ocalan's statement as a step towards peace, he said that the call for disarmament did not concern his forces. The SDF spearheaded the fight that defeated the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria in 2019 and is still seen ...

Following Abdullah Öcalan’s call for disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Syrian Kurdish leaders said the statement doesn't concern Kurdish-led groups controlling the country's north and east.

Syrian Democratic Forces commander Mazloum Abdi clarified that the call for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to dissolve does not pertain to the Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. He emphasized that while Ocalan's announcement is historic,

"Just to make it clear, this is only for the PKK. It is nothing related to us here in Syria," said General Mazloum Abdi, speaking to reporters in Washington from his base in northeastern Syria via ...

Kurdish militant leader Abdallah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with Turkey that is estimated to have killed at least 40,

Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria have begun providing oil from local fields they manage to the central government in Damascus, Syrian oil ministry spokesman Ahmed Suleiman told Reuters on Saturday.