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...

  The new head of the main Syrian exile opposition group says he is prepared to attend a peace conference in Geneva with representatives of President  Bashar al-Assad  of  Syria  without preconditions. But the group’s new president, Ahmad al-Jarba, said in an...

More than six months have passed since the first Interview with Saleh Muslim, president of the Democratic Union Party (PYD). His statements have not changed, ' We will not negotiate with Jabhat al-Nusrah. We are not separatists. The Assad Army will not fall.'  As many...

The UN refugee agency said on Friday it was concerned that Egyptian military and security personnel have been arbitrarily detaining an increasing number of Syrians amid growing anti-Syrian sentiment. UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming told a news briefing that those arrested and detained had...