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Syria Kurds protest recruitment of teenage girls for combat

Kurdish protesters in northeastern Syria demonstrated outside UN offices on Sunday against what they say is the continued recruitment of teenage girls for combat, an AFP correspondent reported. A decade of war in Syria has seen all parties to the conflict recruit minors, both boys and girls....

Two women and a child killed in blast, say Kurdish authorities

Two women and a child from the same family were killed in an attack in Syria's northern city of Minbej, authorities said. Five others were wounded in the "terrorist explosion" on Saturday that occurred as a vehicle carrying civilians passed the entrance to the Arab-majority city under...

Syria: SDF Prepares to Release 850 ISIS Detainees

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is preparing to release over 850 detainees arrested on charges of “belonging to ISIS,” mainly from Deir Ezzor and al-Hasakah, after mediation by tribal elders. It is still unknown if all the prisoners will be released at once or in stages. On...