Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogans spokesman has denounced as irrational US claims that Turkey was attacking Kurds in Syrias northeastern parts. Ibrahim Kalin said Sunday that Ankaras military campaign in the neighboring Arab country, besides Daesh, has only targeted members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and the ...

Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the US and its allies have been providing free weapons to Kurdish militantsoperating in northern Syria in a move that poses a threat to Turkey's security. In an interview with the Turkish NTV news channel on Saturday, Erdogan accused the US and its allies of refusing to sell weapons to Ankarawhile ...

Press TV - Reports say US-backed Kurdish militants, who control parts of the northern Syrian province, intend to introduce Kurdish lessons in schools in the Arab-majority areas there, stirring both emotions and tensions in the ethnically-rich region. The so-called Syrian Democratic Forces, a Washington-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab militants,...

Alwaght - The Syrian crisis has highly led to appearance of strategic differences among the main actors, leading to each of them having its own understanding of the threat sources and the reasons behind continuation of the war. Such a division is even existing among the old allies, like the US and Turkey, the two strategic partners in West Asia that ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump has authorized the arming of Kurdish forces in Syria despite fierce opposition from Turkey. The Pentagon made the announcement on Tuesday, stressing that arming the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is to ensure a clear victory" in operations aimed at the liberation of Raqqah from the Daesh terrorist group. The ...

Diyarbakirs airport has come under rocket fire, sending staff and passengers scrambling for safety in Turkey's main southeastern city. Four missiles were launched at a police checkpoint outside the airport's VIP lounge late on Saturday. Diyarbakir Governor Huseyin Aksoy announced that the incident did not result in any causalities or ...

Syrian forces and Kurdish fighters have agreed upon a Russia-brokered ceasefire in the north-eastern city ofHasakah. The truce includes a "halt to all hostilities and the return to government forces of any positions seized by Kurdish fighters," said a Syrian military source on Sunday. Despite both parties battling the Daesh Takfiri terrorist ...

Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) forces have clashed with Kurdish militants who had infiltrated a northwestern village to stage terrorist and propagandist operations. The confrontation took place in a village in the Mahabad County of West Azerbaijan Province. An IRGC member, who asked not to be named, said the forces engaged the ...

Alwaght- Kurdish Fighters in Iraq have detained three ISIS terrorist group Commanders in Iraqs Nineveh Province. DPA news agency quoted Kurdish Militia fighters as saying warlords were apprehended on Saturday at Hardan village and that they all appeared to be Saudi Arabian citizens.   Local sources say the Saudi commanders of the ISIS ...

The supporters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey have launched a rally in the city of Istanbul to protest against Ankaras growing crackdown on Kurdish militants. In the early hours of Friday, PKK supporters gathered in the Gazi district of Istanbul to show their anger at Ankaras recent deadly operations against Kurdish militants in ...

[caption id="attachment_120861" align="alignright" width="150"] Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, as seen from the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc, October 10, 2014.[/caption] Kurdish forces in the Syrian city of Kobani have repelled an attack by the Takfiri ISIL militants, officials say. According to Kurdish officials and the London-...

[caption id="attachment_116859" align="alignright" width="257"] Kurd volunteers learn how to handle a weapon at a training camp in Qamishli, northeastern Syria on the border with Iraqs semi-autonomous Kurdistan region on August 16, 2014.[/caption] Kurdish forces have made fresh advances as they are fighting a fierce battle against the ISIL militants ...

ERBIL, Iraq As Sunni and Kurdish forces battled on Thursday for control of towns west of Erbil, the regional capital of northern Iraq, civilians fleeing the fighting flooded the airport here and swamped the Iraqi Airways office in a futile attempt to get tickets to Baghdad. In the early hours of Thursday, forces from the Kurdish pesh merga left checkpoints ...