This matters because if ISIS is on the rise in parts of Syria, then it will require coordination between Damascus and the SDF ...

The Kurdish-led Internal Security Forces (Asayish) in northeast Syria (Rojava) confirmed on Tuesday that five of their ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Five members of the Kurdish-led internal security forces (Asayish) were killed in northeast Syria ...

It said 17 of them alleged that the security forces, called Asayish, "held them in stress positions, burned them with cigarettes, punched and kicked them, beat them with plastic pipes and cables ...

On Thursday, the Asayish overran Alaya prison, where they captured more than 60 government soldiers. That, in turn, provoked the NDF to launch an artillery barrage that left 20 civilians dead.

More than 350 detainees held by the Kurdistan Regional Government in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk are feared to have been forcibly disappeared, Human Rights Watch said today.

Turkish airstrikes killed at least 11 people in multiple Kurdish-controlled locations in northeastern Syria, the Kurdish Internal Security Force said Thursday, the latest response from Ankara’s ...

A Kurdish official confirmed an attack targeting a checkpoint operated by the Asayish Kurdish internal security force, but had no further details. The Asayish could not immediately be reached for ...

Assyrian GPF fighters in Qamishli, Syria. Hours after the Kurdish police (Asayish) and the Arab tribesmen of the National Defense Forces (NDF) began to clash inside Qamishli, the Assyrian forces ...

The Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq has been reportedly torturing children to force them to confess to their involvement with IS. Security officers, known as Asayish, allegedly used ...

In some cases, Asayish officers had confiscated their essential documents then and told them to leave the city, but had not followed up until recently.