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Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Sunday noted discrepancies between the YPG’s publicly stated position and their actual on ...
Turkey and Syria signed a defence cooperation agreement on Wednesday as Ankara warned US-backed Kurdish fighters in northern ...
The Kurdish YPG militia, which heads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), should stop "playing for time" and ...
Turkey lists the YPG as a terrorist organisation and says it is indistinguishable from the PKK, which has fought an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 in which more than 40,000 people ...
As he plans for the YPG of the year 2035, two phrases guide him: ‘People are our core capability’ and ‘our can-do culture.’ “Those two statements define YPG in my opinion,” he said.
YPG has been continuously served by a post newspaper since 1951, during the proving ground’s earliest days. The title of the publication was The Sidewinder until 1981, when Spc.
The YPG controls nearly all of Syria’s frontier with Turkey. But Afrin is separated from the bigger Kurdish-controlled region further east by a 100km-wide zone controlled by the Turkish military ...
The YPG has been in the news a lot lately because its fighters—men and women as the press likes to point out—have been effective against the Islamic State and have become an ally of the United ...
A YPG-led strategy should not, however, distract from the overarching multilateral efforts to ensure that Bashar al-Assad is removed from power, and that Syria’s competing mosaic of factions are ...
So I joined the YPG. I wanted to join the volunteers from America, Britain, and the rest of the free world in fighting the Islamic State.