Tag: Syria
Ever since early March, when Russia and Turkey sealed a deal on Idlib, it’s been an open question as to how Turkey will force the armed groups controlling the last rebel stronghold to toe the ...
“I swear to God I’m really tired,” 18-year old Syrian Ibrahim Gazel said, standing in a field of dashed dreams. He was crowded with others who’d flocked to Turkey’s northern border with Greece after Turkey’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
By meeting publicly in Moscow, Ali Mamlouk, special security adviser to Assad, and Hakan Fidan, head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation, wanted to send the Kurds a strongly worded message. Syrian and Turkish intelligence chiefs ...
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 ...
As most readers will be aware, victims of the Syrian conflict have scant opportunities for justice. Russia has vetoed a French-led effort to refer the situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC), so instead, there ...