Tag: Syria
Hakan Fidan The Turkish and Syrian heads of intelligence met in Moscow on Monday, in the first official contact in years despite Ankara’s longstanding hostility to President Bashar al-Assad, a senior Turkish official and Syrian ...
PHOTO: AFP Factions of the Syrian National Army (SNA), a non-state armed group backed by Turkey in northeast Syria, have summarily executed civilians and failed to account for aid workers who disappeared while working in ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump participate in a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 13 in Washington. ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES The benefits of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Muhammed Nur /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Members of the Syrian National Army participating in Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring, Ras al-Ayn district, northern Syria, October 13, 2019 A small Turkish flag was standing on the desk ...