Syrian People's Protection Units members fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Rabia town, Mosul, Iraq on August 6, 2014. YPG members...
Syrian Kurds, one of them carrying a Kurdish YPG flag, watch as a US military vehicle drives on a road after US forces pulled out of their base in...
Commandos, dispatched to Afrin to take part in 'Operation Olive Branch', walk to get on a Turkish Air Force plane at Bingol Airport in Bingol, Turkey...
Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains as they tried to escape from Islamic State forces, are rescued by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and...
People bearing flags of the Kurdish YPG militia protest against the Turkish military intervention in Afrin province in Syria outside the Chancellery...
People bearing flags of the Kurdish YPG militia protest against the Turkish military intervention in Afrin province in Syria outside the Chancellery...
People bearing flags of the Kurdish YPG militia protest against the Turkish military intervention in Afrin province in Syria outside the Chancellery...
Damaged buildings are seen after a bomb planted by YPG/PKK terrorists exploded in a four-story building in Afrin town center in Syria on March 19,...
Smoke billows following the explosion in the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin after Syrian-Arab Turkish backed fighters took control of the city...
Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighters loot shops after seizing control of the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin from the Kurdish People's Protection...
Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighters ride the back of a pick-up with looted livestock after seizing control of the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin...
Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighter drives towing looted items in a trailer after seizing control of the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin from the...
Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighter tows a looted vehicle with a tractor after seizing control of the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin from the...
Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighters loot shops after seizing control of the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin from the Kurdish People's Protection...
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels loot shops after seizing control of the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin from the Kurdish People's Protection Units on...
Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighter stands on a fallen statue of "Kawa" the blacksmith, who was a central figure in a Kurdish legend about the new...
Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighters man a checkpoint in the Kurdish-majority city of Afrin in northwestern Syria after seizing control of it from...
Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighter mans a checkpoint in the Kurdish-majority city of Afrin in northwestern Syria after seizing control of it from...
Syrian Kurds bid their farewell as they mourn by the coffins of People's Protection Units fighters during their funeral in the northeastern city of...
Syrian Kurdish women mourn by the coffins of People's Protection Units fighters during their funeral in the northeastern city of Qamishli on March 17...
Woman mourns while standing next to a coffin during the funeral of People's Protection Units fighters in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on...
Woman cries during the funeral of People's Protection Units fighters in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on March 17 who were killed while in...
Expatriate Kurds carry YPG flags as they participate in celebrations marking the Kurdish new year, or Newroz, on March 17, 2018 in Hanover, Germany....
Turkish military tank is seen during battles between Turkish-led forces and Kurdish fighters, on the outskirts of the town of Jindayris, in the...
Smoke billows during fighting between Turkish-led forces and Syrian Kurdish fighters, on the outskirts of the town of Jindayris, in the region of...
Members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units and Women's Protection Units attend the funeral of Kurdish fighters from the Syrian Democratic...
Members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units attend the funeral of Kurdish fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces that were killed in combat...
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters are seen in the village of Jamanli, northeast of the Syrian city of Afrin, on March 3 as smoke billows in...
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters are seen in the village of Jamanli, northeast of the Syrian city of Afrin, on March 3 as smoke billows in...
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters are seen in the village of Jamanli, northeast of the Syrian city of Afrin, on March 3 as smoke billows in...
Syrian Kurds mourn in the northern town of Afrin during the funeral on March 1, 2018 of fighters from the People's Protection Units militia and the...
Syrian Kurds mourn in the northern town of Afrin during the funeral on March 1, 2018 of fighters from the People's Protection Units militia and the...
Syrian Kurds mourn in the northern town of Afrin during the funeral on March 1, 2018 of fighters from the People's Protection Units militia and the...
Picture taken on February 23, 2018 from one of the top floors of a building shows a general view of Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood in the northern...
Syrian children wave national flags as they walk in al-Hellok neighbourhood in the northern city of Aleppo, after Syrian army forces replaced the...
People hold Turkish flags as they attend a funeral ceremony for Koray Karaca, a Turkish soldier who was killed in cross-border clashes with Kurdish...
Members of Kurdish and Italian associations hold flags of Kurdistan Workers' Party , People's Protection Units , Kurdistan Communities Union and the...
Syrian-Kurds attend an impromptu parade in Afrin as civilians enlist to fight an assault by Turkish troops and allied rebels on the Kurdish People's...
Syrian Kurds march in the northern Syrian city of Afrin during a demonstration on February 4, 2018 denouncing the military operation by the Turkish...
Syrian Kurds march in the northern Syrian city of Afrin during a demonstration on February 4, 2018 denouncing the military operation by the Turkish...
Syrian Kurds wave the Kurdish flag and flags bearing the logos of the People's Protection Units Women's Protection Units as they chant slogans in the...
Syrian Kurds wave the Kurdish flag and flags bearing the logos of the People's Protection Units Women's Protection Units as they chant slogans in the...
Syrian Kurds wave the Kurdish flag and flags bearing the logos of the People's Protection Units Women's Protection Units as they chant slogans in the...
Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighters are seen as they drive toward the Turkish-Syrian border in Kilis, on January 30 as part ot the operation "Olive...
Syrian Kurds mourn during a funeral in the town of Afrin on January 29 of civilians and fighters from the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units...
Syrian Kurds wave Kurdish flags and flags bearing the logo of the People's Protection Units as they shout slogans outside the United Nations office...
Syrian Kurdish child flashes the sign for victory outside the United Nations office in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil, the capital of the...
People look on as smoke rises on the Syrian side of the border in Hassa, near Hatay, southern Turkey, on January 28 as Turkish jet fighters hit...
Soliders carry the Turkish flag-draped coffin of Fatih Mehmethan, a Turkish soldier killed in cross-border clashes with Kurdish People's Protection...
The wife of Fatih Mehmethan, a Turkish soldier killed in cross-border clashes with Kurdish People's Protection Units forces in Afrin, reacts over his...
Police in riot gear watch a protestor wave the flags of Kurdistan and The People's Protection Units a mainly-Kurdish militia in Syria during a mass...
Man waves the flag of the YPG during a demonstration against Turkey's military action in the Syrian town of Afrin, part of Operation Olive Branch, on...
Man waves the flag of YPG during a demonstration against Turkey's military action in the Syrian town of Afrin, part of Operation Olive Branch, on...
Protestors take part in a mass demonstration against the ongoing ??Turkish military campaign in the Kurdish-held Syrian enclave of Afrin, in Cologne,...
Syrian Kurds take part in a funeral for Kurdish People's Protection Units militia fighters and civilians, who died in clashes with Turkish backed...
Picture taken on January 26 shows a member of the Kurdish People's Protection Units militia standing guard in the fields outside the Kurdish town of...
Turkish soldiers stand on their tanks stationed near the Syrian border at Hassa, in Hatay province on January 25 as part of the operation "Olive...
Turkish soldier stands on a tank near the Syrian border at Hassa, in Hatay province on January 24 as part of the operation "Olive Branch", launched a...
Turkish tanks are parked near the Syrian border at Hassa, in Hatay province on January 24 as part of the operation "Olive Branch", launched a few...
Widow Seyma Ozalkan and mother Hatice Ozalkan of Musa Ozalkan, a Turkish soldier who was killed in a cross-border clashes with Kurdish Popular...
