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,...
View ArticleThousands 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. The post Thousands...
View ArticleSyrian 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. The post...
View ArticleTogether for centuries: Syrian envoy rubbishes possibility of Kurds declaring...
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. The post Together for centuries: Syrian envoy...
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