ANKARA – Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) on Monday killed a senior member of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported. As a senior YPG member in Ayn [Read More]
BEIRUT – Syrian refugee Jamal Abu Lutfi and his family gathered around an old wood-burning stove in their tent in Lebanon’s Bekaa town of Saadnayel, worrying about their future after receiving a gloomy text message [Read More]
DAMASCUS – Around 35,000 stolen Syrian artifacts have been retrieved by the authorities since the beginning of the 11-year war in Syria, an antiquities official has confirmed. Firas Dadoukh, director of cultural relations and head [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Friday refuted allegations that a Turkish airstrike, launched as part of the country’s offensive against the mainly-Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, hit a position of U.S. [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkey will launch a ground operation into northern Syria “at the most convenient time” to build a security strip, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. “Our determination to secure all our southern [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday vowed to launch a ground operation “soon” in northern Syria against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). “We will root out all of them with our [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Tuesday urged other countries, particularly the United States, to cease any support for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria. “We tell all our interlocutors, [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkey launched an air operation on Sunday morning against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said [Read More]
DAMASCUS – Four soldiers were killed on Saturday by an Israeli missile strike on military sites in central and coastal Syrian areas, the state news agency SANA reported. The Israeli missile strike launched from the [Read More]
GENEVA – Unilateral sanctions against Syria should be lifted as soon as possible, a UN expert said on Thursday. The sanctions are contributing to the destruction and trauma suffered by the Syrian people, said Alena [Read More]
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