The U.S.’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) still officially views PYD/PKK as a terrorist organization, according to "The World Factbook" section in the intelligence agency’s website. The up-to-date ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s exceptionally harsh comments directed at the United States on February 10 for its links with the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have brought to ...

The PKK-affiliated PYD will have to withdraw its forces from the northern Syrian town of Manbij to the east bank of the Euphrates River “one way or another,” Turkey’s prime minister said Friday.

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Syrian Kurds have emerged as the one the most effective group in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) terror in Syria. Their fighters have shown an extraordinary ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Osman Ocalan, the brother of the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) -- and a onetime head of the group -- believes that the chaos in Syria favors the Kurds ...

The CI Study of PYD is a three‐nation, cohort comparative longitudinal study of the use of the R. Lerner and J. Lerner model of Positive Youth Development (PYD) for understanding the bases of PYD ...

18 Christian institutions by joint statement have accused PYD and YPG of violating human rights, seizing private property, recruiting by force, imposing tax unlawfully, and intervening in curriculum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Tom Miles and John Irish GENEVA/PARIS (Reuters) - Syrian Kurdish officials have yet to be invited by the United Nations to ...

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