A US professor warned Turkey army would possibly attack the Kurdish forces in northern Syria from Tel Abyaz as the Kurds are weak in the region.

A military-diplomatic source told Sputnik that due to US Air Force incompetence, two coalition f-15 fighter jets made an airstrike on Kurdish formations fighting the Islamic State (IS) in Syria.

United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told the Security Council on Wednesday, October 17, that he plans to step down at the end of November for personal reasons after more than four years in the role.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday received Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and the accompanying delegationin Damascus where the two sides discussed the latest developments at the Syrian and Iraqi arenas and the regional and international situations, SANA reported.

Syria’s foreign minister said it’s “impossible” for Damascus to give up on the “vital” oil-rich eastern Syria, controlled by US-backed Kurdish-led forces.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem expressed hope on Monday, October 15, thar the Albu Kamal border crossing with neighboring Iraq would open as soon as possible, Reuters reported.

The U.S. administration has supplied the forces of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s Syrian affiliate, the YPG, with a total of 500 trucks of arms in Syria’s Manbij in the past week alone, Yeni Safaq daily claimed in a report.

The United States is bound to plunge into a dangerous game in Syria with idea of a unified Kurdistan, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with RT France, Paris Match and Le Figaro.

A political expert believes some US senators are behind President Donald Trump’s decision to stay in Syria as they warn the president that the Kurds in Syria would be under Ankara or Damascus attacks if U.S. troops quit the war-torn country.

The co-chair of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) said the council is always ready to negotiate with the Syrian government in order to achieve a political solution with Damascus.

Turkish authorities have detained 88 people over suspected links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the Interior Ministry said on Friday, October 5.

As the fight against Islamic State winds down and Syrian President Bashar Assad looks like he will come out on top of the bitter seven-year civil war, Syria’s Kurds must navigate a delicate diplomatic path if they are not to lose the gains they have made.

The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) did not withdraw from the northern Syrian town of Manbij, as was ordered by Turkey and the United States, and are preparing to defend the town, the Anadolu news agency reported on Friday.

The chief of Syrian Kurdish Democratic forces stated they would not allow Turkey troops to enter the yrian northern town of Manbij.

A commander of a group of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, told Sputnik that a US military base had been detected near the town of Al-Qa'im in northwest Iraq on the border with Syria.