Tag: Syria
A top American diplomat on the ground in northern Syria has criticized the administration of President Donald Trump for not trying harder to prevent Turkey’s military offensive there last month and said Turkish-backed militia fighters ...
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 ...
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Reuters Did Turkey really cooperate with the US army during the daring operation that led to the death of ISIS-leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and why is Turkey now suddenly ...
Even before its recent invasion of Northeast Syria, Turkey was attempting to force Syrians home. Gareth Chantler looks at how such efforts fit into international refugee law. The world has been watching the Turkish-Syrian border ...
Bashar al-Assad PHOTO: AFP Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday said his government’s ultimate goal was to restore state authority over Kurdish-controlled areas in northeast Syria after an abrupt US troop withdrawal but that he ...
In the spring of 2011 when Syrians first took to the streets to demonstrate their grievances against the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the secular opposition in Turkey had just turned to infighting and ...
A little more than three years ago, a small faction within the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the government. The coup would fizzle out by morning, after claiming more than 200 lives, but that wasn’t certain ...
Enes Kanter, a Turkish NBA player who has been publicly critical of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, criticized Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar Tuesday night for appearing to be on Erdogan’s “payroll.” “What an absolute disappointment ...
US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) arrives to a closed session before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight committees October 22, 2019 in Washington, DC. Alex Wroblewski / Getty Ilhan Omar is one of the ...
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Next month’s NATO summit will be a tense gathering, perhaps one of the most tense since the organization’s founding at the end of the Second World War. European members are likely to demand answers for ...