Turkey said yesterday that it was "only a matter of time" before Syrian Kurdish fighters -- seen by the West as essential in the fight against Islamic State jihadists -- will be wiped out.

Kurdish fighters in northern Syria are increasingly under pressure from Turkish-backed armed groups while also fearing the new authorities in Damascus will upend their hard-won autonomy.

ISTANBUL: Turkiye said on Tuesday it had killed 13 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and two in Iraq, a sign that Ankara has pressed on with its campaign against fighters, some with possible ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday he hoped President Donald Trump would end U.S. cooperation with the ...

The fight against ISIS was not just a military campaign but also a defense of values that Hujam and his fellow fighters held ...

They seized Damascus by fighting," Fidan said. Referring to Kurdish fighters in Syria, he said: "If you do not want any military operation in the region, neither by us nor by the new administration in ...

Turkey said on Wednesday it had killed 13 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and two in Iraq, a sign that Ankara has pressed on with its campaign against fighters, some with possible links to U.S.

"Yet, it would be naive to expect this to take place in a time of authoritarian centralization, while at the same time freedom of ... continue to fight Kurdish YPG fighters. Turkey considers ...

At least 101 fighters have been killed in northern Syria over the past two days amid fighting between Turkish-backed forces and Syrian Kurdish fighters, according to a war monitor. The Syrian ...

A Syria war monitor said 31 combatants had been killed since Sunday in ongoing battles between Turkey-backed groups and Kurdish-led forces ... that seven pro-Turkish fighters were killed in ...

The fall of Bashar Assad to Islamist-led rebels has raised the prospect of Turkey intervening in Syria against Kurdish forces accused ... "Those international fighters who came from Turkey ...