The Latest Breaking News from Afrin

Three weeks after the February 2023 earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, I stood amid the rubble in Jindires, a devastated Syrian village. An estimated 50,000 people had lost their lives in the two countries by that point, with the number of casualties still climbing.

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) continued to provide aid to the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Syria and Türkiye last month. On Wednesday, it distributed 11,156 blankets and mattresses in Aleppo’s Afrin and Jindires, as well as the city of al-Bab. The aid will…

Turkish-Syrian border areas witnessed this week a military escalation, marking the five-year anniversary of Türkiye’s Operation Olive Branch aimed to clear members affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from the Afrin region. On Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Turkish forces and their proxies shelled the vicinity…

Eight Türkiye-backed Syrian fighters were killed in clashes with regime troops that raged Monday in the country's northwest, an opposition alliance said. A statement from the Faylaq al-Sham group said six of its fighters were killed and three more wounded in an offensive launched by Syrian government forces backed by…

Commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Mazloum Abdi said the American administration of former President Donald Trump “betrayed” its allies in the SDF when it did not oppose the Turkish infiltration in Syria in late 2019.

Kurds in northern Syria who woke to deadly Turkish air strikes overnight expressed fear and anger on Sunday, accusing the United States of abandoning them after they spearheaded the fight against the ISIS group. In the small city of Al-Malikiyah, in Syria's far northeastern corner, shops were closed and streets…

Syria is facing “acute violence,” the worst economic crisis since the war began in 2011, and a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak with more that 24,000 suspected cases reported throughout the country and at least 80 deaths, UN officials said Tuesday. UN special envoy Geir Pedersen told the UN Security Council…

The Turkish forces redeployed in Jindires in Afrin and al-Bab city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, within the areas of operations Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield. The areas are under Turkish control along with the factions of the so-called Syrian National Army loyal to Ankara. The Syrian Observatory for…

Violent confrontations and bloody clashes continued on Thursday for the fourth day in a row between the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army factions and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which allied with the Hamza Division and Sultan Suleiman Shah Division and took control of Afrin city and a number of surrounding villages…