U.S. withdrawal vacuum: Russian forces head for Syrian-Turkish border in blow to Kurds
Russian forces in Syria headed toward the Turkish border Wednesday to ensure Kurdish fighters withdraw under a deal between Moscow and Ankara ousting them from the minority's entire heartland. U.S. President Donald Trump hailed the agreement as a "big success" and announced his administration was ...
Islamic State casualties mount in Kobani amid war of attrition
Islamic State casualties in the Syrian city of Kobani are mounting in a war of attrition with Kurdish fighters, according to a rights monitor and analysts. More than 1,150 people, including at least 712 members of Islamic State, have been killed in clashes there over ...
Iraqi Kurdish fighters have joined the fight against Islamic State militants in Kobani, hoping their support for fellow Kurds backed by U.S.-led airstrikes will keep the ultra-hardline group from seizing the Syrian border town. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the civil war, ...
Turkish official says Iraqi Kurdish fighters are free to cross border to Kobani
A Turkish official said on Monday Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters were free to move through Turkey to Syria "as soon as they are ready" after a Syrian Kurdish leader accused Ankara of stalling on an agreement to allow them passage to the besieged Syrian ...
Iraqi Kurdish fighters poised to deploy in hours for Kobani battle
Iraqi Kurdish fighters will be deployed to Kobani within hours to bolster the town's defenders in their battle against Islamic State, a senior Iraqi Kurdish official with knowledge of the operation said. The reinforcements will remain under the command of the Kurdish Regional Government in ...
Islamic State fighters advance into Syrian border town of Kobani
Islamic State fighters pushed into two districts of the strategically important Syrian border town of Kobani in fierce fighting late on Wednesday, Kurdish officials among the town's defenders said. "Tonight (Islamic State) has entered two districts with heavy weapons, including tanks. Civilians may have died ...
Street fighting rages in key Kurdish town on Syria-Turkey border as Islamic State moves in
Street fighting raged between Kurdish defenders and Islamic State militants who advanced into Kobani on Monday after subjecting the Syrian border town to an assault lasting almost three weeks, a monitoring group said. Islamic State had earlier raised its black flag over a building in ...
Turkey bars Kurds from entering Syria to fight Islamic State as refugees top 130,000
Turkish troops used tear gas to disperse a crowd of Kurds seeking to enter Syria to defend their ethnic kin there against Islamic State, whose advance in the past week has driven tens of thousands to flee. Kurds clashed with Turkish security forces near the ...
