Syrian Democratic Forces

Turkey’s scapegoating of US special envoy Brett McGurk over the military partnership between the United States and the Syrian Kurds grew crazier today, with one pro-government newspaper labeling him a murderer.

U.S.-backed forces battling to oust the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from its Syrian bastion Raqqa have advanced in the city's south, seizing a new neighborhood, a spokesman and monitor said on Aug. 1.

Food access in Syria's battle-torn Raqqa is now at "a critical turning point," aid organizations said on July 31, with markets shuttered and residents depending fully on their dwindling stockpiles.

A group of volunteer fighters have joined the ranks of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS extremists. The group announced the first LGBT brigade formed to combat Islamic State's (ISIS) jihadists.

In the latest display of Turkish anger at U.S. policy in Syria, the state news agency has divulged the locations of 10 U.S. military bases and outposts in northern Syria where the U.S. is leading an operation to destroy the so-called Islamic State in its self-styled capital of Raqqa.

Nearly a dozen Syrian rebels have been killed in hit-and-run clashes with a U.S.-backed alliance dominated by Kurdish forces in the country's north, a monitoring group said on July 18.

Rebels were locked in their second day of fighting on July 18 with units from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) around the village of Ain Daqna.

The Turkish military on July 17 retaliated against a harassment fire by the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) opened from northern Syria, shelling its positions in the region near the border, Doğan News Agency has reported.

ISIS brides have revealed the reality of being a wife in the caliphate, describing jihadi speed-dating, women fighting in dormitories and religious fanatics who are ‘only interested in sex’.

Ex-wives and widows of extremists told how they paid smugglers to help them flee from once the terror group started to lose territory in Iraq and Syria.

United States military advisers are operating inside Raqqa, the Syria bastion of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a U.S. official has said.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an umbrella group overwhelmingly made up of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), has not attended any meeting in Washington of the international coalition to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a U.S. official told the Hürriyet Daily News on July 12.