With heavy fighting raging between the Syrian military and the Kurdish SDF in the country’s northeast, President Ahmed Sharaa sought to make a concession to the nation’s ethnic Kurdish minority with a new decree enshrining a modicum of rights to them. The decree...
It’s hardly the first ceasefire between the two sides declared over the last week, but Sunday, the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian government announced another ceasefire, one that President Ahmed al-Sharaa says includes a full integration for the Kurds and much of their...
Fighting continues in Syria’s Aleppo Governorate east of the city of Aleppo but west of the Euphrates River, as the Syrian military tries to seize the area from the Kurdish SDF forces that have had control over it largely throughout the past decade. The Syrian Army...
After a week of heavily fighting between the Syrian military and Kurdish SDF in Deir Hafer and the city of Aleppo, a US-brokered ceasefire was reached. Two days later, fighting has erupted yet again, once again in Deir Hafer and areas east of there. The Syrian...
After days of fighting and the sealing off of the Kurdish neighborhoods in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, the last of the SDF has reportedly withdrawn from the city as part of a deal with central government forces, though the SDF maintains it is only a “partial...
The Syrian Army’s latest fight with the Kurdish SDF is further escalating today, with the army now not only declaring multiple Kurdish neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo “active military zones” and now imposing daytime curfews on those parts of the city, while firing...
Tuesday’s fighting in the Aleppo Governorate has escalated into a bigger clash between Syrian security forces and the Kurdish SDF, with the battle spreading to the governorate capital of Aleppo, and the military announcing a “limited military operation” against the...
Fighting erupted between the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian Army today in the Aleppo Governorate, with the battle centering around a checkpoint in the town of Deir Hafer. At least seven people were killed in the course of the fighting, six of them civilians. A number of...
As 2025 came to an end and 2026 began, Syria’s first full year under the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) rule is now in the books. Though the year saw Syria go from an international pariah to a welcomed member of the global community, internally, violence still...
An agreement was reached in March for the Kurdish SDF to integrate into the Syrian Army, and while we’ve seemed close to the deal actually going through multiple times throughout the year, persistent clashes and tensions have dogged this plan, and as the first full...
