Last Wednesday, Turkey began a much-anticipated military operation in north-eastern Syria aimed at removing the predominantly Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from the border area with Turkey and establish a “safe zone” 30 kilometres wide to re-locate up to two million Syrian refugees ...

Since the defeat of ISIS at the hands of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in eastern Syria, international attention – be it government or media – has been shifting away towards more conventional geopolitical rivalries. However, the territorial defeat of ISIS has not spelled the end of the grou...

The eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zour is witnessing growing tensions between the Syrian Government and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AA), which is the civilian government corresponding to the areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Although these tensions hav...

Over the past week, forces belonging to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a major constituent of the United States-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have begun withdrawing from the Ras al-Ain region in north-eastern Syria in preparation for the implementation of the US-Turkish admi...