The map shows control divided between government forces, rebels with the ethnic Kurdish minority, rebels with the extremist Islamist group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), and the mainline ...

Distinct ethnic and religious groups have called for self-determination for more than a century since their land was absorbed into the larger, Sunni Muslim-led entity created after World War I.

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad.

Government forces crushed an insurgency launched last week by gunmen loyal to the ex-Assad regime. Ahmad al-Sharaa on Monday reached a pact with U.S.-backed Kurdish-led authorities.

The Syrian Civil War is quickly approaching its third anniversary on March 15. Instead of moving towards peace, negotiations have largely stalled, the Assad regime has continued its use of brutal ...

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The Kurds are an ethnic minority group. Türkiye is at odds with the SDF forces, which it says are allied to another group of Kurdish militants that has fought Türkiye for 40 years.

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Kurds in Syria were ...

There are Turkish-backed rebels and Sunni Muslim jihadists in the north, Kurds ruling over much of Syria’s east, and Jordan-backed militants in the south, among others.