Kurdish Group Gaining Autonomy In Northern Syria - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Andrea Glioti

Andrea Glioti

May 7, 2013

Syrian Kurds practise reading the Kurdish language at a school in Derik, Al-Hasakah October 31, 2012. Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani warned Kurds in Syria against being sucked into the "fires of discord," urging them to preserve Kurdish unity as tensions between rival factions threaten to spillover into violence. Syria's Kurds see the war ravaging their country as an unprecedented opportunity to gain the kind of freedoms enjoyed by their ethnic kin in neighbouring Iraq, where they live autonomously — Syrian Kurds practice reading Kurdish at a school in Derik in Hasakah province, Oct. 31, 2012. The Syrian government is now allowing the teaching of Kurdish in a move seen as an attempt to keep the Kurdish population in the regime's fold. — REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani

A Kurdish fighter from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) holds his weapon as he takes position atop a building with a YPG flag in Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood, June 7, 2013. Kurdish fighters from the YPG joined the Free Syrian Army to fight against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. Picture taken June 7, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTX10USX

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Andrea Glioti

Demonstrators display a model of a MiG-21 fighter plane during a demonstration against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Amuda June 22, 2012. Syrian air force pilot Colonel Hassan Hamada flew his MiG-21 fighter plane over the border to Jordan and was granted political asylum on Thursday, the first defection with a military aircraft since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TRANSPORT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

Syrian Kurdish Group Linked to PKK Kills Protesters

Andrea Glioti

Syrian Kurds practise reading the Kurdish language at a school in Derik, Al-Hasakah October 31, 2012. Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani warned Kurds in Syria against being sucked into the "fires of discord," urging them to preserve Kurdish unity as tensions between rival factions threaten to spillover into violence. Syria's Kurds see the war ravaging their country as an unprecedented opportunity to gain the kind of freedoms enjoyed by their ethnic kin in neighbouring Iraq, where they live autonomously

Syrian government introduces Kurdish in universities

Andrea Glioti

An officer of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) stands guard near the Syrian-Iraq border October 31, 2012. Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani warned Kurds in Syria against being sucked into the "fires of discord," urging them to preserve Kurdish unity as tensions between rival factions threaten to spillover into violence. Syria's Kurds see the war ravaging their country as an unprecedented opportunity to gain the kind of freedoms enjoyed by their ethnic kin in neighbouring Iraq, where they

Conflict Intensifies In Syria's Kurdish Area

Wladimir van Wilgenburg (Syria Pulse)

Wladimir van Wilgenburg (Syria Pulse)