Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson condemned an oil agreement between the US and a Syrian Kurdish group as being in contravention of the international law. In a statement on Tuesday, Seyed Abbas Mousavi condemned the oil agreement as a measure in contravention of the international law and in violation of Syrias national sovereignty and ...

Euronews | Vivi VitalonewithNBC News World News: The Kurdish expression "No friends but the mountains" has become more painfully true in recent weeks. On Oct. 26, a U.S.-led raid killed the world's most wanted terrorist, the Islamic State group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, thanks to a Kurdish forces informant who was a spy in the terror group'sinner ...

RT | Fyodor Lukyanov: Let's factor all the official statements, political campaigns, personal relations and 'credit history' of the Syrian conflict out of the equation, and take a look at the current situation as seen by the main players on the ground. All players seem to be coordinating their moves quite well. The United States, in a bid to deliver ...

Sputnik - According to various reports, Kurdish forces have been withdrawing from the 120-kilometre (75 miles) wide and 30-kilometre (20 miles) deep Turkey-proposed "safe zone" in north-eastern Syria. However, the situation on the ground is changing rapidly, international observers say, describing scenarios of further developments in the region. On ...

Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoganmeets with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as a deadlinedraws near for Kurdish militants to withdraw from Syrias northern border areas near Turkey or face a renewed military offensive. The meeting is being held in Russias Black Sea resort of Sochi. The two leaders are expected to exchange ...

Al-Monitor | Makram Najmuddine: One Mideast player in particular looks likely to benefit from the travesty playing out between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds. Because it has close ties to both Damascus and Ankara, Iran was in an awkward position when Turkish forces entered Syria last week to attack the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Ankara ...

Bloomberg - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkeys military operation in Syria could end after Kurdish fighters leave a strip of territory along its border, laying out his key condition for ending an offensive that has drawn American sanctions and roiled markets. The U.S. decision to stand aside when Turkey advanced into Syria to push back ...

Press TV - Syrian army troops have entered thetowns of Tabqah, Ain Issa andTel Tamer in northeastern Syria after Damascus reached an agreement with Kurdsin the region to deploy troops in the area, state media report. The deployment toTabqah near Raqqah on Monday restores the state's foothold in an area that is hometo a major hydroelectric dam. The ...

Reuters - Iran offered on Saturday to engage Syrian Kurds, Syrias government and Turkey in talks to establish security along the Turkish-Syrian border following Turkeys military incursion into northern Syria to fight Kurdish forces. In making the mediation offer, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif referred to a 21-year-old security accord ...

MNA In a speech back in August, the Secretary-General of Lebanese Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah had predicted that the United States would leave the Syrian Kurds alone. In a speech, which dates back to August 26, 2018, the Hezbollah leader praised the Syrian Kurds for their vigilance and starting negotiations with the Syrian government, saying that ...

The Guardian | Martin Chulov: It is unclear whether Turkey has the will or capacity to take over detention camps In early 2015, as Islamic State trampled over armies of the Middle East and menaced the west, the US turned to the Kurds for help. It was a familiar call, having been repeated over the decades whenever Washington needed a friend in the ...

The Wall Street Journal | Raja Abdulrahim: President Trumps decision to step out of the way of a Turkish offensive in northern Syria renews pressure on the Kurdish ethnic group and the forces that helped it establish a semiautonomous region in the country. The Kurdish ethnic minority group, with a distinct language and culture, is spread across ...

Alwaght - While disagreements between the US President Donald Trump and the European leaders over a set of issues are already huge, these days a dispute over ISIS terrorist group has found its way to their divisive cases. Since February, the White House insisted that the European countries should take back the ISIS militants captured in Syria....

Press TV - The Syrian government has welcomed talks with Kurdish groups aimed at maintaining the countrys unity after the Kurds called for a Russian-mediated deal with Damascus. Syrian Kurdish leaders have sought a Russian-mediated deal with President Bashar al-Assad's government after US President Donald Trump decided to withdraw American troops ...

Press TV - Syrian Kurdish leaders seeka Russian-mediated deal with President Bashar al-Assad's government regardless of USplans to withdraw from their region, a senior official has said. The deal would mark perhaps the most importantmilestonebecause the two biggest chunks of Syria splintered by seven years of war would be rejoined, leaving only ...

Iranian Diplomacy - Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, tells the Tehran Times that The Syrian Kurds now have a much stronger incentive than before to reach some sort of understanding with the Assad regime--possibly pledging loyalty to the regime in return for a degree of autonomy in northeast Syria. Pillar says Although ...

Alwaght - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogans saber-rattling in Syria which started with his military intervention in northern Syria under the Operation Euphrates Shield has so far been subjected to opposition by both the pro-Syrian actors and Ankaras Western allies. Despite the objections to the Syria campaign and Erdogans relative success in ...

Alwaght - As the Syrian crisis is nearing its end and government forces keep crushing terrorists and restoring the official rule over the country, the US defeats on the ground grow noticeably distinct. The latest Washington's loss is the US-backed Kurdish militants' inclination to seal a deal with the central government. To the US frustration, ...

Press TV - An alliance of Kurdish and Arab militants in Syria says it has come to an agreement with the Syrian government to develop negotiations to end violence in Syria. The announcement was made after the so-called Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the political wing of theSyrian Democratic Forces (SDF), sent a delegation to Damascus for talks ...

Tasnim Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said the Kurdish people of Syria proved that they would never allow the US and Israel to gain a foothold in the war-hit country. Fortunately, in Syria, different tribes, including Arabs and Kurds, and followers of various religions are fighting against ...