Top official says community left out of Geneva peace talks working on federal autonomous region of its own. Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system imminently, a Kurdish official says, as peace negotiations continue to be held in Switzerland about how to end the country’s five-year war. The step, which would combine three Kurdish-led autonomous areas of
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