Beirut, Lebanon – AFP United States-backed Kurdish-led fighters in northern Syria on Wednesday fought a deadly battle with Turkish-supported forces who said they intervened after clashes killed dozens in an Arab-majority province further east. Days of fighting in eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, which left 90 people dead, had r...
Near Deir Ezzor, Syria – AFP Kurdish-led forces were sending reinforcements to eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province on Monday amid days of clashes with Arab fighters loyal to a detained local official, an AFP correspondent said. Fighting erupted after the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) detained Ahmad al-Khabil, head of the...