Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union

ANKARA, Nov 22  – Turkish authorities issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) on Tuesday in relation to a February bomb attack on military buses in the capital Ankara, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. The warrant named Salih Muslim – co-chair of the PYD, the political

By John Irish PARIS, May 24 – The main Western-backed Syrian opposition has gained little by demanding the fall of President Bashar Al Assad other than fuelling killings and the refugee crisis, a senior official from Syrian’s northern Kurdish region said on Monday. Syrian Kurds and their allies are finalising plans for an autonomous political federation in the northern part of