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Middle East
Syria government reaches new truce deal with Kurdish forces
Kurdish female member from YPG/YPJ forces guards a protest in Qmiashlo city in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), January 20, 2026 ....
Islamic State detainees’ fate unclear after Damascus reins in Kurds
Islamic State ISIS militants in Gweran prison in Hasaka, Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), November 2023. Photo: Screengrab/DW video/YT/via iKurd.net HASAKA,— The...
Syria’s Rifaat al-Assad dies at 88 in UAE
Rifaat al-Assad, the younger brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, France, November 15, 2011. Photo: AP DUBAI,— Rifaat...
Syrian Kurdish forces “compelled to withdraw” from ISIS al-Hol camp: statement
A member of the Kurdish security forces at al-Hol camp, which holds thousands of relatives of Islamic State fighters, in...
Syrian govt militias deploy to former Kurdish-held areas under ceasefire deal
Syrian government militias sit on top of a tank, after the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from Deir al-Zor...
Kurdistan Will Be Crushed if We Hesitate
A Kurdish PKK female fighter at Turkey Kurdistan (Bakur Kurdistan) border area with Iraqi Kurdistan (Bashur), 2023. Photo: ANF No...
Kurdish forces retreat from Syria’s largest oil field as govt militias advance
Islamists and Arab residents destroyed a statue honoring a Kurdish female fighter who fought against Islamic State ISIS and died...
Syria’s Sharra symbolically declares Kurdish a “national language”, seen as “political game”
A composite image of Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, (left) and a Kurdish legal...
Syria’s Kurds say attack by gov’t Islamist forces kills several fighters
Syrian government Islamist forces attack Kurdish SDF convoy while withdrawing from eastern Aleppo, January 17, 2026. Photo: Video/X/via iKurd.net QAMISHLO,...
Rubio, Blair, Kushner named to US Gaza board under Trump plan
U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Dec 29, 2025. Photo:...
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