Second, by buying time for Turkey and its Syrian local partners, United States should encourage and Turkish and Syrian rebel military activities against Qaeda, Islamic State, and Salafist organizations aligned with Qaeda, such as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Turkistan Islamic Party. ..…
The PKK, an outlawed armed group active in Turkey, has long maintained a presence in northern Iraq near the Turkish, Iranian, and Syrian borders. Turkish forces have conducted operations against the PKK in Iraq for over a decade. ..…
According to report from Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides Syria, Syrian army has thwarted offensive launched by al-Nusra Aleppo province... In the northern part of Aleppo province, near Syrian-Turkish, the units of Syrian Armed Forces have stopped..…
Syrian military attacks on armed opposition groups near Turkish border hit two displaced persons camps on April and 15, 2016, causing at least 3,000 people to flee, today.. ..…
“The sheer exhaustion and desperation Syrian families go through after fleeing for their lives and literally scrambling their way to safety through the night across the Turkish border is written all over their faces,” Simpson said. ... A Syrian man from Dar`a, who crossed into..…
Accumulating evidence offers persuasive proof that Syrian rebels supported by Turkish intelligence – not Syrian Army troops – bear responsibility for the infamous sarin nerve-gas attack killing hundreds of people on Aug. 21, 2013 in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus. ... The Times..…
Hersh implicates Turkish intelligence and extremist Syrian rebels instead. . ... Recognizing Obama’s political sensitivity over his “red line” pledge, the Turkish government and Syrian rebels saw chemical weapons as the way to force the President’s hand, Hersh..…
In fact, that this was result of strike by Syrian military unit with in chemical weapons.. Initial meetings between opposition military commanders and Qatari, Turkish and U.S intelligence officials took place at Turkish military Antakya, Hatay Province, now used as the center and..…
German officials stressed that they valued Turkish aid to pursue EU's policy, by detaining Syrian refugees Turkey to keep them from seeking asylum Europe.. Erdogan's release of German- Turkish Deniz Yucel, also laid the basis for in relations between Berlin and Ankara.. ..…
There are no plans to establish new Russian bases on the territory of Syrian Arab Republic, ment by Russian Defense Ministry said Monday.. ... To prevent the violation of the ceasefire, one of the branches of the center has been set up near Afrin, in spot bordering the territory held by Kurdish..…
Sergei Rudskoy, the head of Russia's General Staff's main operations command Russia's Defense Ministry says the Turkish government continues to supply al-Qaeda-linked al- Nusra Front terrorists fighting Syria with weapons in bid to undermine Syrian in its fight against foreign-backed..…
In reality, it gave air access to Turkish planes and also its approval. Despite the bombing of Syrian military installations this April by US, British and French forces, Russia reckons that the US and EU will not play in this phase of the negotiations as neither has shown real desire to..…