[3] The Kurdish National Alliance in Syria was founded on 14 February 2016 after 2 days of negotiations between the constituent groups.

[4] In June 2016, the group condemned the Kurdish National Council's foreign relations office in Ankara's accusation of the People's Protection Units being a terrorist organization.

[clarification needed][5] In January 2017, the HNKS stated that it will support proposals of unity talks between the Movement for a Democratic Society and the KNC.

[7] In early March 2018, during the Turkish military operation against the Afrin Region, Turkish-backed Sunni Islamist fighters captured the village of Sharran and burned a flag of the HNKS's Kurdish Democratic Unity Party in Syria (PYDKS) in its vacant office.

[8] The Kurdish National Alliance supports Rojava and considers federalism in Syria as the most effective solution to the Syrian Civil War.