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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) accused Turkey on Thursday of launching a large land offensive targeting three villages in northeast Syria despite a truce, but Russia said a peace plan hammered out this week was going ahead smoothly. CBC | World News
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Kurds Quickly Reject ‘Cease Fire’ Deal In Syria Announced By Mike Pence, ‘No Safe Zone Will Happen,’ Kurds Say
Within about an hour of United States Vice President Mike Pence announcing what he called a negotiated “cease fire” in Turkey’s attack on the Kurdish people living in Northeastern Syria, the Kurds flatly rejected the deal, saying that the agreement meant that they would be forced to abandon the territory that has served as home to the otherwise stateless people ...
Read More »Turkey says ground forces are advancing Kurds in northern Syria
Turkish ground forces pressed their advance against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Thursday, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said, launching airstrikes and unleashing artillery shelling on Syrian towns and villages the length of its border. CBC | World News
Read More »Kurds mobilize in Syria as Turkey poised for imminent attack
The Kurdish-led civilian administration in northeastern Syria issued a “general mobilization” call along the Syrian border with Turkey on Wednesday as Ankara poised for an imminent invasion of the area in the latest major escalation in the war-ravaged country. CBC | World News
Read More »Iraqi Kurds say government forces have led attacks in disputed areas near Kirkuk
Iraqi Kurdish officials say federal forces and state-backed militias have launched a “major, multi-pronged” attack aimed at retaking the disputed northern city of Kirkuk, causing “lots of casualties” in fighting south of the city. CBC | World News
Read More »Iraq’s Kurds vote on independence, raising regional fears
Iraqi Kurds voted Monday in a landmark referendum on supporting independence, a move billed by the Kurdish leadership as an exercise in self-determination but viewed as a hostile act by Iraq’s central government. CBC | World News
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