World News Desk – Women who fought on the front lines in the battles of Kobani and Raqqa—and against ISIS—now have no place in the new army of post-Assad Syria. While thousands of male Kurdish fighters have been integrated into Damascus's military structure, the future of Syria's female Kurdish forces remains shrouded in uncertainty.
World Service - The Pentagon Inspector General's report shows that at the height of the battle between the Syrian army and the Syrian Kurdish forces in early 2026, the American forces only played the role of mediator for the safe exit of the Kurdish forces from Aleppo, and any direct military intervention was avoided.
