Kurdish female fighters of the Women Protection Unit (YPJ) attend military training near Qamishli city May 11, 2014. Picture taken May 11, 2014. REUTERS/Massoud Mohammed
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurds in parts of northern Syria have carried out arbitrary arrests and failed to investigate the killings and disappearance of political opponents, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday in a report documenting rights abuses.
The Democratic Union Party (PYD), an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in neighbouring Turkey, has run three Kurdish enclaves in northern Syria since 2012, when Syrian government forces withdrew from the areas.
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