Afrin
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Turkey points to Kurdish militants for deadly Istanbul bombing / Nazlan Ertan
Turkish security forces have arrested a Syrian woman they say confessed to carrying out the attack under instructions from Kobani, but both the Kurdistan Workers Party and Syrian Kurdish forces deny any involvement.
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Jihadist group seizes Kurdish town controlled by Turkish-backed forces
Syrian jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has taken over a town controlled by Turkish-backed groups in northwest Syria, U.S.-government funded Voice of America outlet reported on Thursday.
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Syrian opposition launches program to teach Kurdish language in Aleppo
Syrian Kurds in the areas of the Syrian opposition welcomed the decision to launch a program to teach the Kurdish language at the opposition-affiliated Free Aleppo University in the city of Azaz.
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Turkey opposes U.S. exempting Syrian Kurdish regions from sanctions: FM
Turkey opposes the US decision to exempt regions controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from Caesar Act sanctions on Syria, Hurriyet Daily News reported on Friday, May 13.
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Factional infighting escalates in northern Syria / Khaled al-Khateb
Infighting continues among the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army factions in light of a power and influence struggle, conflict over crossings and smuggling corridors, and the lack of a unified military institution.
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Institute says Turkey has committed war crime against Kurds
The Gate Stone Institute wrote in its report on Turkish military operations in northern Iraq and Syria that "These operations are more of a war crime than a counter-terrorism, given their impact on the lives of civilians."
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Currency crisis threatens Turkey's Syria strategy / Fehim Tastekin
Turkey’s economic turmoil might challenge Ankara's grip over opposition-held areas in Syria, where in-house rivalries among the armed factions over financial resources have escalated.
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Raqqa Sheikhs urge Damascus to negotiate with Syrian Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration
The central government must accept the system and the decisions of the autonomous administration and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which has become a military force.
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Senior UN official denounces missile attack in Afrin
After a number of rockets slammed into a residential neighborhood in Syria’s northern Kurdish-majority city of Afrin on the previous day, a senior United Nations official strongly denounced the action on Saturday.
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Afrin IDPs hold Moscow and Washington responsible for their protection
Suleiman Jaafar called on Moscow and Washington to play a humanitarian role in stopping Turkey's threats against northern Syria, as the region faces a humanitarian catastrophe and the killing of civilians in the event of a new attack.
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Erdogan says latest Kurdish YPG attack on Turkish police is 'final straw'
Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his country was determined to eliminate threats originating in northern Syria, adding an attack by Kurdish YPG militants that killed two Turkish police was "the final straw."
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Turkey is waiting for Russia and US green lights to attack northern Syria: expert
A Syrian Kurdish analyst and journalist believes "currently, there is no opportunity for a Turkish ground attack on Syrian Kurdistan, but whenever Turkey finds a position, it will attack northern Syria."