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1/17/2025 3:22:35 PM
US Central Command said its chief met with Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria and urged the repatriation of foreign Islamic State group fighters, as Kurds battle Turkey-backed groups in the region.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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1/14/2025 6:49:30 PM
Is new life being breathed into the long-stalled Kurdish peace process in Turkey
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1/9/2025 10:28:25 AM
Battles between Turkish-backed groups, supported by air strikes, and Kurdish-led forces killed 37 people on Thursday in Syria's northern Manbij region, a war monitor said.
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1/6/2025 8:33:16 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday he would order an intervention to prevent any splintering of Syria, a warning aimed particularly at the country's Kurdish forces.
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1/5/2025 12:54:08 PM
More than 100 combatants were killed over the last two days in northern Syria in fighting between Turkish-backed groups and Syrian Kurdish forces, a war monitor said on Sunday.
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1/2/2025 7:55:37 PM
Authorities in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah have banned four organisations accused of affiliation with the Turkish-blacklisted Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), activists said Thursday, denouncing the move as "political".
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12/28/2024 1:03:19 PM
A delegation from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due on Saturday to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul, a party source said.
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12/19/2024 1:45:28 PM
Ankara will push ahead with its military preparations until Kurdish fighters "disarm", a defence ministry source said Thursday, stressing Turkey faces an ongoing threat along its border with northern Syria.
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12/17/2024 10:48:07 PM
The leader of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on Tuesday proposed a "demilitarized zone" in the northern town of Kobane as fighting with Turkish-backed groups grips northern Syria.
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12/17/2024 6:19:34 PM
Syria's "conflict has not ended yet," even after the departure of former president Bashar al-Assad, the UN's envoy to the country warned Tuesday, highlighting clashes between Turkish-backed and Kurdish groups in the north.
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12/8/2024 5:07:07 PM
The commander of a Kurdish-led force in Syria hailed "historic" moments on Sunday with the fall of the "authoritarian regime" of Bashar al-Assad.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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11/12/2024 9:12:30 PM
The Kurds received support from the Biden administration, writes Karam Said, but what might Trump’s return to the White House imply for the complex, many-sided issue?
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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11/12/2024 9:10:35 PM
The elections in Iraqi Kurdistan show that neither democracy nor stability in the enclave should be taken for granted, writes Salah Nasrawi
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10/31/2024 1:42:36 PM
Turkish opposition parties called for protests Thursday at what they said was the politically-motivated arrest of an opposition mayor for alleged links to the banned Kurdish PKK militant group.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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10/29/2024 11:53:53 PM
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party claimed responsibility for a shooting attack near Ankara, driving the Turkish authorities to respond, reports Karam Said
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10/29/2024 7:34:00 PM
Turkey will continue its military operations in northern Iraq and Syria against Kurdish PKK rebels so as to "eliminate" their threat, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised on Tuesday.
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10/20/2024 8:21:58 PM
Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region headed to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament for the oil-rich region, where voters have expressed disenchantment with the political elite.
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9/18/2024 2:52:25 PM
Iran's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, on Wednesday nominated a member of the Sunni Muslim minority to be governor of Kurdistan province, official media reported.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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9/17/2024 8:44:59 PM
A social revolution is taking place in Iran two years after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian-Kurdish woman who died after being arrested for improperly wearing the hijab, writes Manal Lotfy
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9/16/2024 4:32:01 PM
One person was killed and two were wounded on Monday in a strike on a refugee camp in northern Iraq, the autonomous Kurdistan region's counter-terrorism service said, blaming Turkey.
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