Tag: Russia
With the United States scaling back its global role, the two nations are in a contest over which will become the pre-eminent regional power. ISTANBUL — Turkey and Russia tried on Friday to step back ...
Neither side can back down from proxy standoff, but Russia holds whip hand in Idlib For more than three years, Russia and Turkey have been shadow boxing on the soils of northern Syria. In the past three ...
Developments in Syria’s northern Idlib region have put Turkey’s President in a tight corner, perhaps the tightest since he first hijacked state power ten or more years ago. Upwards of a million refugees, purged by ...
AFP PHOTO Russia has urged Turkey to refrain from making provocative statements about events in Syria amid rising tensions over the Syrian province of Idlib, Gazete Duvar’s English service reported on Friday. The Russian Foreign ...
Although some observers believe that Turkey’s importance to the United States and other Western governments will increase after the assassination of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, they shouldn’t be too quick to arrive at such conclusions ...
Russia is providing military assistance to Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), reports the Turkish publication Yeni Akit , citing local sources. Yeni Akit states that Russia has been supplying the YPG with weapons and ammunition. According to ...
BRUSSELS – After spending four tumultuous days engulfed in the chaotic ramifications of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper lashed out Thursday at Turkey for its military assault across ...
Russian forces have begun to deploy towards the Turkey-Syria border, as part of deal to remove Kurdish troops. Russia has steadily built up its military presence in Syria Units have already entered the two key ...
Russian troops are already ordering the Kurds to give up territory, or face a renewed onslaught from Turkey. Russian military police arrived in the Syrian city of Kobani Wednesday to deliver a message to Kurdish ...
Even by Vladimir Putin’s standards for embarrassing his foreign counterparts, his treatment of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday was a spectacle — and not a good one for the Turkish president. Meeting Putin in ...