Turkey’s stepped-up military campaign to crush Kurdish insurgents has reduced some urban neighborhoods in the southeast of the country to battle zones, raising fears the conflict could escalate.

Kurdish forces who fought ISIS in Syria are hoping their U.S. allies will convince Turkey to stop an offensive of punishing airstrikes against them.

The Kurdish-controlled zone, known formally as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), is encircled by the borders of Turkey and Iraq, as well as Syrian regime-controlled ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey said Sunday it would take steps to create "safe zones" across northern Syria, including in areas held by Syrian Kurdish fighters who are allied with the ...

Kurds on both sides of the Syria-Turkey border say they’re not seeking an independent Kurdistan, but instead to establish autonomous and fully recognized Kurdish regions along the lines of Iraq ...

NOEL KING, HOST: Kurdish civilians and military are continuing to evacuate along the northeastern border between Syria and Turkey. A U.S.-brokered pause in hostilities is set to expire tomorrow.

Turkey is seeking to rapidly take advantage of the fall of the Assad regime to try to settle several scores in Syria and then assume a place of power in Damascus. Turkey has already played a major ...

ISTANBUL—An imprisoned Kurdish militant leader urged his followers on Thursday to give up their weapons, opening an opportunity to defuse a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people ...

Why is Turkey fighting the Kurds in Syria, who are the Kurds and what role did the U.S. have in the military action? ... Why does Turkey want to push the YPG back and create a safe zone?

But in Turkey’s calculations, the safe zone doubles as an opportunity to push the Syrian Kurds farther away from Turkey’s border, thus making it harder for some monolithic Kurdish entity to ...

After all, it is not Turkey’s broad society and economy that benefit from the Turkey-Iraqi Kurdish rapprochement but rather just a small circle of companies surrounding Erdoğan.

Turkey blames the PKK, considered a terrorist organisation by the United States and the EU, for the deaths of more than 40,000 people since it launched its armed campaign for an ethnic Kurdish ...