Tag: Kurds
United States: Ceasefire extended between Kurds and Turkey-backed rebels | News in brief
The Turkish-backed SNA rebel group is fighting Kurdish-led SDF forces in northern Syria. The United States said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement to extend the ceasefire between the…
The risk of fragmentation hangs over post-Assad Syria
The Assad regime in Syria fell on December 8 after more than half a century of unchallenged rule. A new page is opening for this country whose liberation from the…
Kurds in Syria raise the flag of the opposition
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left fullscreen Opposition parties hang the independence flag in Damascus on Monday, the day after dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled. Now the Kurdish self-government in the northeast will…
Syrian Kurds cornered after the fall of Bashar al-Assad
The fall of the Damascus regime is shaking up the political landscape and the balance of power in Syria. Pro-Turkish militias launched an offensive against the region of the Autonomous…
the Syrians are carefully monitoring the post-Bashar situation which is taking shape
In the wake of the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, questions are piling up about the challenges facing the Syrian people. What place will the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir…
how Erdogan takes advantage of the chaos in Syria to lead an offensive against the Kurds – L’Express
Flanked by a Turkish flag, the portrait of Islamo-nationalist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan caps each of the poles of the main avenue of the town of Batman, 450,000 inhabitants, in…
In southern Syria, the government loses control of Daraa and a border crossing with Jordan
In parallel with the offensive led by the rebels, the Free Syrian Army has seized the border post with Jordan in the far south, while Amman and Israel are strengthening…
towards a resumption of oil exports to Kurdistan, under the leadership of Baghdad
White smoke in Iraq for the resumption of Kurdish oil exports. An agreement was reached on Wednesday November 6 between the authorities of Iraqi Kurdistan and the federal government of…
three pro-Kurdish mayors accused of “terrorism” removed from office
In Turkey, three mayors from the People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM), the main pro-Kurdish left-wing party, were dismissed from their positions on Monday, accused of ” terrorism » by…
the day after the legislative elections, the weariness of certain voters
No big surprises in Iraqi Kurdistan the day after the parliamentary elections. Despite hopes for change, the two parties that have shared power in the region for 30 years have…