PKK official denies claims of Maher al-Assad in Iraq's Kurdistan
Dec 23, 2024 · The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) categorically denied allegations that Maher al-Assad, the brother of Syria's former dictator Bashar al-Assad and head of the Fourth Division, is hiding in Iraq's Qandil Mountains under PKK control.
Syria's Kurds Unite against Assad, but Not with Opposition
Jul 31, 2012 · Syria's Kurds have lately been sharply split between two major movements: the Party of Unity and Democracy (PYD), founded in 2003, which collaborated both with the Bashar al-Assad regime and with the violently anti-Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK); and the Kurdish National Council of Syria (KNC), an amalgam formed in October 2011 of ...
Syria's U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition faces uncertain future - NPR
Dec 27, 2024 · Turkey says the main militia force in the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition is the Syrian arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party – an insurgent group better known as the PKK which it has been fighting in...
Kurdish nationalist DEM Party delegation meets imprisoned PKK …
Jan 3, 2025 · The renewed negotiations between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers Party, ... (HTS) overthrew Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was backed by Iran and Russia. In the meantime, the Turkish ...
The End of the PKK? | Foreign Affairs
2 days ago · In 2012, Bashar al-Assad withdrew government forces from northeastern Syria, allowing a Syrian offshoot of the PKK, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and its military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), to establish a proto-state—the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, also known as Rojava or western Kurdistan—in the ...
ENKS representative urges PKK ban from Syria | Rudaw.net
Jan 5, 2025 · A Kurdish National Council (ENKS/KNC) representative on Sunday said that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) must be banned from Syria to safeguard the rights of Kurds.
Syria's U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition faces an uncertain future after ...
Dec 27, 2024 · Turkey says the main militia force in the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition is the Syrian arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party – an insurgent group better known as the PKK which it has been fighting in Turkey for decades. Both Turkey and the U.S. designate the PKK as a terrorist organization.
Syria's U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition faces an uncertain future after ...
Dec 27, 2024 · Turkey says the main militia force in the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition is the Syrian arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party – an insurgent group better known as the PKK which it has been fighting in...
After decades of oppression, Kurds get taste of freedom as Assad…
Oct 29, 2012 · In the Kurdish areas of Syria, known as Rojava, people have wasted little time seizing on the opportunities a tentative retreat by President Bashar Assad's government forces three months ago...
Why the Kurdish Question Remains West Asia’s Litmus Test to …
Dec 13, 2024 · Viewing the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a group it considers a terrorist organisation, Türkiye intervened militarily to counteract these developments.
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