ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Rival Kurdish parties in northeast Syria (Rojava ... They are in talks with the ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) chief Mazloum ...

Barzani reportedly urged the SDF to allow Kurdish parties to reintegrate into northeastern Syria and to cooperate with Damascus. “Ankara essentially wants the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the ...

Aldar Khalil, a senior Democratic Union Party official, put it even more plainly: “The revolution in Syria started to destroy centralized rule in Syria, and after that’s gone, its not possible ...

As a political scientist with expertise in the region, I have distilled this research into five key lessons that could help guide Syria now, as it seeks to build a stable and democratic state.

A fresco painted on a facade in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, showing supporters of ... The Syrian Kurdish movement, named the Democratic Union Party (PYD), of which the YPG is the armed wing ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The conference to chart Syria’s political future will include all segments of Syrian society except for the Kurdish-led administration in the northeast and loyalists of the ...

“We discussed the process of change that Syria is going through and together ... opposition parties in the past. The ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the opposition Kurdish National ...

In 2012, the Democratic Union Party (PYD)—an affiliate of the militant PKK in Turkey—declared self-rule in northeast Syria. Its military wing emerged as the dominant force in the region.

Kurdish leaders in Iraq and Syria are pledging to collaborate closely ... the longtime leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan, held talks Thursday ...

If Turkey takes the town, it will prevent the YPG and its parent organisation the Democratic Union Party (PYD) from creating a single Kurdish-controlled area across northern Syria. Meanwhile, Turkish ...

Boza, a 65-year-old farmer from Kobani in northern Syria, had travelled to the ... convoy from Kobani along with members of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a political party that is aligned ...

ANKARA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after ... and the European Union. The YPG militia spearheads the Syrian Democratic Forces ...