It is possible that new US President Joe Biden will interact with Turkey and the Syrian Kurds and he would likely will ask Turkey to negotiate with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as well as the Syrian Kurdish-Arab forces known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)," Anthony Avice Du Buisson told KurdPress in an interview.

The head of the office of the Syrian Democratic Council in the United States, requested the continued presence of the United States in Syria and announced the possibility of mediation by the newly-elected President Joe Biden government to resolve the Syrian Kurdish dispute with Ankara.

Kurdistan's Prime Minister, Masrour Barzani, called on Wednesday, the United Nations to participate as a third party in the Erbil - Baghdad discussions.

Germany does not prefer to implement an arms embargo on NATO member Turkey, German newspaper Stimme quoted German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas as saying on Tuesday.

Following repeated violations against journalists by the government and the ruling parties of the Kurdistan Region, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday, December 22, indicated concern about the severe decline in press freedom in the region.

In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani’s deputy chief of staff outlined why the Kurdish region's government wants US forces stationed in and around the Fish Khabur border crossing.

A split in the NATO alliance is possible as a result of the United States imposing sanctions on Turkey for buying the Russian-made S-400 missile system, defense analyst Alex Gatopoulos said on Friday in an article for Al Jazeera.

Reported border clash worsens conflict between Kurdish factions in triangle where US, Turkish and Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish forces come into play.

The deputy head of the Ministry of Peshmerga in the Kurdistan Region claimed that a force affiliated with the military forces of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) had attacked Peshmerga forces in the Kurdish region.

Kurds in the Syria’s northwest region of Afrin accuse Turkish-led forces of seizing the region's olive crops, U.S. government-funded news outlet Voice of America (VoA) reported on Monday.

Republican Senator James Lankford on Monday expressed approval for U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to impose sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system.

Russian Rosneft has owned Kurdistan Region's crude oil pipeline to Turkey for 20 years.

Moscow is hoping the final months of outgoing President Donald Trump's presidency will allow it an opportunity to reinforce its positions in Syria.

The United States announced on Monday that it imposed sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of a Russian missile system last year. 

A convoy of 85 tankers and military vehicles including at least 16 trucks belonging to US troops has left Syria’s oil-rich Hasaka province and made its way to Iraq via the al-Walid border crossing.