Syrian Kurds

Syria ready to abide by ceasefire covering area from Ras al-Ain to Tal Abyad, says Kurdish forces chief after US, Turkey reach agreement

Since Turkey launched its invasion of northeastern Syria on 9 October, dozens of civilians have been killed and 300,000 have been displaced, according to the Observatory.

Together for centuries: Syrian envoy rubbishes possibility of Kurds declaring separate federal region

The Syrian Kurds are an important component of the Syrian people. We are proud of them, they are proud of us, Syria's envoy to the UN Bashar Jaafari said.

Syrian Kurds press hundreds of young men into army to fight against ISIS

Police in Syria's beleaguered self-ruled Kurdish areas have rounded up hundreds of young men to press them into military service recently made compulsory, activists and Kurdish officials say.

Thousands of Syrian Kurds enter Turkey fleeing advancing Islamic State

Turkey opened a stretch of the frontier on Friday after Kurdish civilians fled their homes, fearing an imminent attack on the border town of Ayn al-Arab, known as Kobani in Kurdish.

Fleeing Islamic State, hundreds of Syrian Kurds gather on Turkey's border

Islamic State fighters, armed with heavy weaponry including tanks, have seized 21 villages near Kobani in the last 24 hours, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syria's civil war, said on Thursday.