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Syria: Breakthrough deal with Kurds shifts regional alliances

A ceasefire between Syria's Kurds and the government in Damascus ends hostilities and grants first-time rights to the marginalized minority. Does the deal also mean an end of the Kurdish quest for independence?

The New York Times · 3d

Syrian Government Signs Breakthrough Deal With Kurdish-Led Forces

The agreement marked a major victory for Damascus in its quest to unify the country, as violent unrest continues to grip Syria’s coastal region.

CNN on MSN · 2d

Syria’s new government strikes deal to integrate powerful Kurdish rival in landmark agreement

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish-led forces to integrate them into state institutions as it tries to unify the country’s diverse communities after a decade of civil war.

13don MSN

Kurdish militia declares ceasefire following leader’s call to end five-decade insurgency with Turkey

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader ...

Kurdish Fighters Called a Truce, but Turkey Kept Up Lethal Strikes

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

VOA Kurdish: In Kobani, people protest Alevi massacres, Turkish bombings

In Kobani, Syria, people protested the massacres of Alevi on the Syrian coast, coinciding with Turkish bombings of the ...

Syrian Kurds celebrate deal with Damascus as coastal residents remain wary after violence

In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government ...

Truthout5d

Kurdish Women Journalists Who Work Under Constant Threat Have Lessons to Share

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

12d

Kurdish PKK militants declare a ceasefire in 40-year insurgency in Turkey

The announcement by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, comes against the backdrop of fundamental changes in the region, ...

The Associated Press on MSN12d

Turkey’s Kurds wary of path to peace after PKK declares ceasefire

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — A momentous ceasefire declaration on Saturday stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern ...

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Kurdish terror group declares a ceasefire in 40-year insurgency in Turkey

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, designated a terror group by the U.S., has declared a ceasefire amid changes in the Middle East ...

BBC3d

Kurdish-led SDF agrees to integrate with Syrian government forces

The Turkish government views the biggest militia in the SDF, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), as a terrorist organisation. It says it the YPG is an extension of the banned Kurdistan ...

The National on MSN1d

Kurdish trafficker sending migrants to Europe forced underground by crackdown

Hunting trafficking’s Kurdish big boss The mastermind of an international people smuggling network has gone into hiding after ...

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