During the Syrian civil war, the United States used the SDF as its primary proxy: the boots on the ground for the fight against Islamic State (IS). Under the shield of American air power, the SDF gained much of Syria – including Raqqa, the former IS Syrian capital.

A deal under which Kurdish forces abandoned long-held territory in Syria to the Syrian government could pave the way for Turkey to advance its stalled effort to end its decades-long conflict with the PKK,

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and US President Donald Trump discussed guaranteeing Kurdish rights in a phone call on Monday, Syria's presidency said, a day after Damascus reached a deal with Kurdish forces including a truce.

Over a million Syrian refugees have now returned since the fall of Assad, but the country's education system is struggling with a third of schools unusable.

As Berlin pressures Syrian refugees to pursue “voluntary return,” it overlooks Syria’s fragile recovery and shifts focus away from Germany’s own structural decline.

On Sept. 21, 2025, a senior U.S official boasted that an Israeli-Syrian security agreement to resolve months of conflict was “99% complete” and would be announced within two weeks. Those two weeks have now passed. And the reality on the ground suggests ...