The Syrian opposition will form a provisional government in the second half of August after months of failed efforts, Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmad Jarba said on Tuesday to AFP from Doha.   Jarba held fruitful talks with the new emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin...

  Syria's main Kurdish militia on Tuesday issued a call to arms to all Kurds to fight jihadists in the country after the assassination of a Kurdish leader, activists said to AFP.   "The Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People (YPG) called on all those fit to...

Turkey has told the leader of Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- an offshoot of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) -- who paid a surprise visit to Ankara at the end of last week, not to go ahead with a fait accompli autonomy, but recognized the Kurds' right to autonomy as long as...

 Issa Hisso, the leader of the Democratic Union Party- PYD, was assassinated this morning in Qamishli city, north east Syria by an improvised explosive device in his car, activists reported. Hisso, a Syrian Kurdish opposition leader in the Kurdish Supreme Committee and the West...