Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said it will send a delegation to meet Abdullah Ocalan, head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in jail on Wednesday for a second time as part of a political effort to end a decades-long conflict.

ANKARA - Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule. Read more at straitstimes.

Speaking to the Reuters news agency in Damascus, Murhaf Abu Qasra said on Sunday that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was procrastinating in its handling of the com

An official with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Thursday the militant group would agree to leave northeastern Syria if the U.S.-allied Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) maintains a significant joint leadership role there.

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left many Kurds anxious about the path ahead.

Last month's sudden and tumultuous overthrow of Syria's longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad marked a moment ... as "allied with the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party which has fought the Turkish ...

WASHINGTON - Kurdish leaders in Iraq and Syria are pledging to collaborate closely to advance Kurdish rights in Syria following the fall of President Ba

Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the national army but stood ready to use force should negotiations fail."The door to negotiation with the (Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces) is currently open,

Syria's new administration has called on the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to be integrated in the national army. But the SDF has so far refused, amid recent clashes with

Following the fall of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad last month, US-backed Kurdish forces have been under mounting pressure by both the new authorities in Damascus and the Turkish government to dis

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule. NATO member Turkey is now in a position to influence its neighbour's future diplomatically, economically and militarily.

Although the new Syrian authorities have shown openness toward them, the Kurdish forces, which lead the autonomous entity in the country's northeast, which Turkey has vowed to annihilate, have much to fear from a new deal,