Politics of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria

The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the political wing of the armed group the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said on July 28 that it and the Syrian government had decided at a meeting to form committees to develop negotiations to end violence in Syria

The Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) has retreated from checkpoints around the northern Syrian city of Manbij, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy said on July 19. 

Reports that the last members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) pulled out from the Syrian town of Manbij on July 15 are "exaggerated" and "do not reflect the truth," sources from the Turkish Foreign Ministry told Hürriyet Daily News on July 16.

The Turkish military on July 6 completed its 10th round of patrols in the northern Syrian city of Manbij as part of a deal with the U.S. to rid the area of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).

A new report of Germany's domestic intelligence agency has described the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its Syrian affiliates, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the People's Protection Units (YPG) as "sister organizations."

The Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which is seen by Ankara as a terrorist organization and an offspring of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), have agreed to withdraw its forces from the northern town of Manbij, the U.S. Department of State has said.

The Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which is listed by Ankara as a terrorist organization and an offspring of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is scheduled to withdraw from the northern Syrian town of Manbij on July 4, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said. 

Turkish and U.S. military officials have agreed on the implementation of a road map that brings about the withdrawal of the People's Protection Units (YPG) from the northwestern Syrian city of Manbij in accordance with a political agreement between Ankara and Washington early June.

Turkey and the United States seem to have finally agreed on how to solve the Manbij puzzle in Syria, which has been poisoning relations like an open wound for almost two years.

Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish party in control of northeastern Syria, is prepared to hold talks with the Syrian government over the future of the area, senior Kurdish officials said on June 6.