SYRIA OPPOSITION IN RIYADH AIMS TO FORM UNITED FRONT

The YPG have had an ambiguous relationship with the government, refusing to fight alongside Syrian opposition groups against it... READ MORE›

MANCHESTER ACTOR MICHAEL ENRIGHT PLAYS ARIANA GRANDE IN RAQQA TO DEFY ISLAMIC STATE

The group is now mostly confined to the oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor in the east of Syria, along the border with Iraq... READ MORE›

ONLY BRITISH WOMAN FIGHTING ISIS IN SYRIA SAYS SHE CAN NEVER RETURN HOME

Kimmie Taylor sits at the top of an open concrete staircase gazing at the sun as it sets over Isis-held Raqqa city, cigarette between her fingers... READ MORE›

WHY IS THE WORLD IGNORING THE REVOLUTIONARY KURDS IN SYRIA?

There are a thousand differences between what happened in Spain in 1936 and what is happening in Rojava, the three largely Kurdish provinces of northern Syria, today... READ MORE›

REVEALED: UK MERCENARIES FIGHTING ISLAMIC STATE TERRORIST FORCES IN SYRIA

Former infantryman James Hughes, from Reading, and Jamie Read, from Lanarkshire, understood to be in Rojava, northern Syria... READ MORE›

SYRIAN KURDS, ALLIES TO APPROVE FEDERAL PLAN DESPITE TURKEY

Both the United States and Turkey have demanded the Kurdish YPG militia withdraw from positions west of the Euphrates... READ MORE›

U.S. PLANS TO CAPTURE THE ISLAMIC STATES CAPITAL ALREADY GO AWRY

Members of a Syrian armed group hold positions in the frontline against the Islamic State group outside Ain Issa, in the countryside of Raqqa province... READ MORE›

KURDISH LEADER SAYS COLLAPSE OF ASSAD REGIME 'WOULD BE A DISASTER' DESPITE ITS TREATMENT OF HIS PEOPLE

Mr Muslim stressed the YPG was acting to defend not only Kurds, but all Syrians under attack by Isis... READ MORE›

MACER GIFFORD WE COULD DEFEAT ISLAMIC STATE WITHIN A YEAR I KNOW BECAUSE I FOUGHT THEM

I was under no illusion that my presence on the frontline was going to win the war against Isil... READ MORE›

FORMER ROYAL MARINE FROM YORKSHIRE BECOMES FIRST BRITON TO DIE FIGHTING ISIL

Mr Johnston, 28, from Maryborough, Queensland, died trying to liberate the Isil-held town of Tal Hamis in northeast Syria... READ MORE›

BRITISH CHEF DIES FIGHTING ISLAMIC STATE IN SYRIA

A British former chef has been killed fighting Islamic State alongside a Kurdish militia in Syria, according to local activists... READ MORE›

OUR JOURNEY TO THE FRONT LINES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIS

These are areas the Kurds have battled fiercely to control, first against the Free Syrian Army and later the Islamic State, and many fighters have died... READ MORE›

FIRST FEMALE WESTERN FIGHTER DIES FIGHTING ISLAMIC STATE

Ivana Hoffmann, 19, from Duisburg in Germany, died on Saturday fighting for the Turkish Marxist-Leninist Communist Party against Isis in Syria... READ MORE›

MANBIJ - A BLUEPRINT FOR RAQQA IN SYRIA AFTER ISIS?

Round the corner, the Manbij Civilian Council is inaugurating its Women's Council, run exclusively by women to deal with issues that affect them... READ MORE›

THE U.S. SHOULD ACCEPT A SYRIAN KURDISH REGION, SAYS TURKISH OPPOSITION LEADER

Co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party HDP Selahattin Demirtas waves as Kurds gather for New Year celebrations at Silvan, in southeastern Turkey, on March 17... READ MORE›

SYRIA'S KURDS REBUKED FOR SEEKING AUTONOMOUS REGION

The document agreed on Thursday stressed that the federal system would guarantee the unity of Syrian territory ... READ MORE›

ISIL CAN BE SMASHED IF WEST WORKS WITH KURDS

Isil forced themselves on to the world stage when they took Mosel and began their relentless march across Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›

THE MIDDLE EAST'S ALPHABET SOUP OF KURDS, EXPLAINED

And a Kurdish separatist insurgency in Turkey has posed the U.S.'s NATO ally a huge strategic conundrum, and sowed deeper unrest in the country... READ MORE›

U.S. ENVOY GOES TO SYRIA TO PRESS THE FIGHT AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE

A State Department official visted Kobane for the first time this weekend... READ MORE›

AMERICAN VOLUNTEER DIES FIGHTING ISIS ALONGSIDE KURDISH FORCES IN SYRIA

An American volunteer fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria has been killed during an ongoing offensive to recapture the town of Manbij from Islamic State militants... READ MORE›

'SAUDI INTERVENTION IN SYRIA WOULD RISK RUSSIAN WRATH'

Saudi Arabia intervening in the Syrian civil war would risk Russian wrath... READ MORE›

EVERYDAY 400 PEOPLE TRY TO CROSS INTO THE UK

When Hamoudi Ali got to Calais, he couldn't believe his eyes... READ MORE›

KURDS OF SYRIA, TURKEY AND IRAQI UNITE TO BUILD KURDISTAN

A refugee crosses the Tigris River from Iraqi Kurdistan into north-eastern Syria which is predominantly under Kurdish control... READ MORE›

SYRIAN KURDS DECLARE THEIR OWN REGION, RAISING TENSIONS

The self-proclaimed federal region will be known as Rojava-Northern Syria and will link the three cantons -- Jazeera, Kobane and Afrin... READ MORE›

HIT THE ATM: THE ANKARA-TEHRAN-MOSCOW COALITION

Ankara would never allow the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces SDF take Jarabulus... READ MORE›

IRKING TURKEY, ASSAD, KURDS DECLARE NORTH SYRIA FEDERAL AUTONOMOUS ZONE

Syria's Kurdish-controlled northern regions voted to seek autonomy under a federal system on Thursday, angering both the Damascus government and neighborin... READ MORE›

SURUC, Turkey -- Ahmet Basa, a quiet, wide-eyed 11-year-old refugee from Damascus, Syria, speaks Turkish fluently and has big plans for the future... READ MORE›

TURKISH MILITARY STRIKES YPG AND ISIL TARGETS IN SYRIA

Turkey has launched separate artillery strikes on Kurdish and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL positions in northern Syria... READ MORE›

SYRIAN FORCES, KURDISH YPG AGREE TO HASAKA CEASEFIRE

Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters have agreed to halt fighting in the northeastern city of Hasaka, according to state media... READ MORE›

KURDS OF SYRIA, TURKEY AND IRAQI UNITE TO BUILD KURDISTAN

A refugee crosses the Tigris River from Iraqi Kurdistan into north-eastern Syria which is predominantly under Kurdish control... READ MORE›

TURKEY'S 'EUPHRATES SHIELD' AIMED TO WIPE OUT IS, STOP KURDISH ADVANCES

Local time Wednesday morning, Turkish air force bombers attacked IS position in the Syrian town of Jarabulus, just across the border from Turkey... READ MORE›

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