{"id":312420,"date":"2026-01-25T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/syria-announces-ceasefire-extension-what-does-it-mean-for-the-kurdish-people-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:00:33","slug":"syria-announces-ceasefire-extension-what-does-it-mean-for-the-kurdish-people-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/syria-announces-ceasefire-extension-what-does-it-mean-for-the-kurdish-people-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria announces ceasefire extension &#8211; What does it mean for the Kurdish people? | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/kzZLdktqiNs\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Syria announces ceasefire extension - What does it mean for the Kurdish people? | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kzZLdktqiNs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Syria&#8217;s government has announced that it will extend a four-day ceasefire with Kurdish fighters for 15 days. The two sides have been fighting since early January, when Damascus launched an offensive to bring the Kurdish-administered region back under its control. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, tens of thousands of protesters have marched in cities across Europe in solidarity with the Kurdish people in Syria. In Germany&#8217;s city of Cologne, 20,000 people took to the streets calling for the protection of civilians. Kurdish people in Syria have accused government troops of attacks on their population after Damascus launched an offensive to bring the Kurdish-administered region back under its control. <\/p>\n<p>As government forces advanced this week, the Kurds withdrew from the al-Hol camp &#8212; the biggest facility housing relatives of suspected IS members. The fate of the woman and children there now hangs in the balance. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 What could an extended truce mean for the Kurdish people?<br \/>\n02:30 Asl\u0131 Ayd\u0131nta\u015fba\u015f is an analyst at the Brookings Institution, a US think tank<br \/>\n07:10 Tens of thousands protest in Europe in solidarity with Kurdish<\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<br \/>\n#Syria #Kurdish #Truce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria&#8217;s government has announced that it will extend a four-day ceasefire with Kurdish fighters for 15 days. The two sides have been fighting since early January, when Damascus launched an offensive to bring the Kurdish-administered region back under its control. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of protesters have marched in cities across Europe in solidarity with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[129514,129017,133597],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-312420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-announced","tag-government","tag-syrias"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Syria announces ceasefire extension - What does it mean for the Kurdish people? | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Syria announces ceasefire extension - What does it mean for the Kurdish people? | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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