What is Turkey's game plan in Syria? After amassing a major array of fighters and military equipment into combat formation on the 80-kilometer (50-mile) line between Turkey’s border towns of Akcakale and Ceylanpinar, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched the incursion Oct. 9 into Syria's Kurdish northern region.

Following a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Turkish President  Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Oct. 6, Trump decided to withdraw US forces in Rojava (northeastern Syria), paving the way for Turkey to start its military operation to invade what has been a relatively stable region.     

Anthony Avice Du Buisson, a political analyst, warned the senario in Afrin could be repeated in the other Kurdish cities in the noryh of Syria and a large number of people could be displaced and seek shelter in Kurdistan Region in the norh of Iraq.

On Wednesday, Turkey announced that it was beginning an assault on a Kurdish-led militia in northeastern Syria. How did the two American allies get here?

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers have a special place in the Kurdish heritage and folklore, which are the subject of many songs, proverbs and stories, but in the last few decades they have become a source of misery for the people of the region after successive Turkish governments built 22 dams on these two rivers, which led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands who have been forced to migrate to major cities in the western part of the country.

The United States is worried that Turkey will carry out a major offensive against Kurdish militia in Syria, media reported on Friday.

The head of Northern Syria Federation Executive Committee says the planned Syria constitution which is planned to be ratified will fail without including the Kurds.

Iraqi President Barham Salih met separately Sept. 18 with four Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leaders — President Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, parliament Speaker Rewaz Fayaq and Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani in Erbil, the KRG capital. 

Wannabe sultan Erdogan covets expanding Turkey’s borders to include oil-rich northern Iraqi and Syrian territory. Combatting Kurds in Syria, posing no cross-border threat, is part of his annexation scheme — what Damascus officials condemn and won’t tolerate.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent comments on northern Syria may have far-reaching consequences. Before his departure for New York to participate in the UN General Assembly this week, he said: “We have to clear the region (northern Syria) from the terrorist organisations and return it to its original owners. And the original owners are mainly Arabs –up to 85 to 90 percent.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took his case for a "safe zone" in northeast Syria to the world stage this week, telling the United Nations General Assembly that as many as three million refugees could be moved to an area of the war-torn country now controlled by US-allied Kurds.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) is facing its first major loss in member registration numbers in 17 years.

Ankara and Baghdad are working toward building a new oil pipeline with the capacity to transport one million barrels per day from Iraq's Kirkuk fields to the Turkish border.

Lawyers for jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas called on Turkey’s judiciary to heed a high court ruling for his release from prison as they prepare to argue his case before a panel of international judges this week.

The leader of Turkey’s largest pro-Kurdish party, Sezai Temelli, returned from a high-profile visit to Iraqi Kurdistan that many Kurds hoped was part of a fresh attempt to revive peace talks between Turkey and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). But while Temelli’s interlocutors said they would support any such initiative, nothing concrete involving the Kurdistan Regional Government is afoot, according to Iraqi Kurdish officials and members of the delegation who briefed Al-Monitor on the visit.