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The US told Ankara it will not deliver any more weapons to the Syrian Kurdish PYD/YPG fighters, Turkish media report. The news comes as the Turkish operation ‘Olive Branch’ in northern Syria has entered its eighth day. Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin and US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster held a phone call on Friday […]
Kurdish officials in Afrin have urged Damascus to send troops to protect Syria’s sovereignty from the “Turkish occupier.” Ankara insists it will return the enclave to its “original owner” after its “liberation” from “terrorists.” The self-administrated, Kurdish-held enclave in the northern Syria issued a plea for help to the Syrian government on Thursday, reiterating its […]
Osman Orsal/Reuters Both the US and Russia have urged Turkey to show restraint in its military campaign against Kurdish forces in Syria, but Turkey says it will continue. Turkey considers the Kurdish YPG, one of the key forces that defeated ISIS in Syria, part of a terrorist group that operates within its borders. The US […]
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says Turkey gave advance notice that it was planning to launch an attack on US-allied Kurdish militias in Syria, but he did not specify if Washington tried to dissuade Ankara. ”Turkey was candid,” Mattis told reporters aboard a plane traveling to Asia from the US. ”They warned us before they […]
Reuters Turkey launched a massive air and ground campaign against US-backed Kurds in Syria on Saturday. The Kurdish YPG have released statements asking Turkey to “halt its unjustified threats.” Turkey launched a massive air and ground campaign against US-backed Kurds in Syria’s Afrin province on Saturday, which its military has code-named operation “Olive Branch,” […]
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Lawyers representing a group of French jihadi wives being held captive by Kurdish fighters in Syria have filed a complaint for not letting the women face trial at home, on the grounds that Syrian Kurdistan is not a “real country.” A group of around 40 radicalized French women, along with their children and several men, […]
Syrian Kurdish militias will feel betrayed and will likely align closer with Damascus, if Donald Trump indeed delivers on his promise to Recep Tayyip Erdogan and “adjusts” US military support for the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces, experts have told RT. In a phone call with his Turkish counterpart Friday, Trump briefed Erdogan on “pending adjustments […]
Published time: 25 Oct, 2017 03:33 Kurdistan’s regional government has proposed to “freeze” the outcome of last month’s independence referendum and begin dialogue with Baghdad to prevent further violence as Iraqi forces continue to “secure” Kurdish-controlled territories. The Kurdistan regional government based in Erbil offered to “freeze the outcome of the referendum that was held […]
Iraqi and Kurdish forces have clashed in the town of Altun Kupri on the border of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, security official said, as Baghdad continues its offensive in the wake of a controversial referendum on Kurdish independence. Iraqi security and pro-government militias descended on Altun Kupri, which lies some 50 km (30 miles) to […]
