Afrin

Turkey's flag was flying in Afrin on Sunday after its troops and Ankara-backed rebels chased out Kurdish militia forces to seize control of the Syrian city. In a major victory for…

More than 200,000 civilians have fled the city of Afrin in northern Syria in less than three days to escape a Turkish-led military offensive against a Kurdish militia, a war monitor said…

A Turkish-led offensive to capture the Kurdish-majority enclave of Afrin in northern Syria has forced 30,000 civilians from its main city in 24 hours, a monitor said Thursday. "More than…

With Turkish-led forces nearly surrounding Syria's Afrin city, some panicked residents are attempting to flee, others are stocking food fearing a siege, and Kurdish fighters are digging in…

Hundreds of civilians fled a Turkish-led advance on Syria's Kurdish-majority city of Afrin on Monday, a monitor said. Turkey-led rebels have advanced to the outskirts of Afrin city since…

Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels on Thursday took control of the key northern town of Jandairis from Kurdish militia, a monitor said. "Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels took…

Turkey asked its NATO ally the U.S. to halt the movement of Syrian Kurdish militia to Afrin to fight against the Turkish military. The Turkish army on Jan. 20 launched an operation against…

Turkey has pressed the German government to extradite a Syrian Kurdish politician, the former co-chair of a Syrian Kurdish political party linked with the militia Ankara is fighting in…

On Feb. 24, the U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed upon a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria without delay. During a daily department press briefing on Feb. 27, U.S.…

Turkish air strikes killed at least 36 militants linked with the Bashar al-Assad regime who entered Afrin to support the Kurdish militia in the northwestern Syrian enclave of Afrin against…