For some Kurds, the wave of protests that began late last month has raised hopes that perhaps, after 47 years of rule, the end of the Islamic Republic is in sight.

Over the last decade, the SDF worked with the US and defeated ISIS in Syria. However, now the SDF is facing major setbacks, and Kurds fear they may be massacred.

DAMASCUS, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Syria on Tuesday announced a ceasefire with Kurdish forces it has seized swathes of territory from in the northeast and gave them four days to agree on integrating into the central state, which their main ally, the United States, urged them to accept.

Sharaa’s announcement on Friday came after days of fighting between the government and Kurdish forces. On Saturday, those forces began withdrawing from a flashpoint east of Aleppo.

The Kurds are a group of people indigenous to the Mesopotamian plains and nearby highlands, which today stretch across southeastern Turkiye, northeastern Syria, northern Iraq, northwestern Iran and southwestern Armenia. The Kurdish population is concentrated in these areas, which are collectively referred to as Kurdistan.

Hundreds of Kurds demonstrated late Monday and overnight outside the Tweede Kamer in The Hague to protest violence in Syria, prompting the deployment of Dutch riot police due to the size of the crowd.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - British lawmakers warned on Wednesday that Kurds in northeast Syria (Rojava) face an “immense” threat amid escalating military operations by the Syrian Arab Army and its affiliated armed groups,

The Syrian government's attempt to wrest back control of Kurdish-held areas has thrown into doubt the fate of thousands of suspected Islamic State group jihadists detained there, with Western observers worried many could take advantage of the chaos to escape.