Image:An explosion in Tal Rifaat, northern Syria. Pic: Reuters While no one has claimed responsibility yet, the Turkish defence ministry said its jets conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets. PKK is considered a terrorist group b...
UAVs, like those produced by TUSAS, have been regularly used by the Turkish military in its fight against Kurdish militants within the country and across the border in Iraq. It's important to stress that no-one has claimed responsibility, and it's still ...
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the three Turkish airstrikes were all near the border, ranging from 200 yards to 2.4 miles inside Syria. He said the airstrikes targeted vehicles for the extremists as well as an ISIS gathering point, with...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s air force struck Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in an apparent retaliation for an attack at a key state-run defense company that killed five people and wounded more than 20 others. The defense ministry said mor...
Turkey launched strikes in Iraq and Syria as a response to an apparent terrorist attack in Ankara being linked to Kurdish fighters affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab has the latest.
"Ankara said many months ago that it will make everything in its power to eliminate the terrorist threat at its borders and is now doing it, so an incursion in Iraq after Syria will not come as a big surprise," Oytun Orhan, a researcher at the Ankara-based think tank ORSAM, told Xin...
Turkey renews strikes on energy infrastructure in northeast Syria, PKK in IraqTurkey launched air and drone strikes targeting locations in northeast Syria and the Kurdistan region since midnight of Jan. 13, including electricity and oil infrastructure in northeast Syria, after nine Turkish soldiers ...
Turkey’s defense ministry reported that 89 targets had been destroyed during the night air attack in northern Iraq and Syria. The ministry claimed that strikes had been delivered at places of deployment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and Syrian Kurdish units that are outlawed in Turkey. The ...
Under the pretext of fighting PKK, Turkey has deployed its troops in areas of northern Iraq and Syria and is conducting aerial attacks on parts of the northern areas of these countries. Ankara has received widespread criticism from both Iraqi and Kurdish authorities in Bagdhad and Erbil as well...
On videos below: Putin, Erdogan, Merkel and Macron at Syria Summit in Turkey. Note the positions of leaders: Putin and Erdogan in the center, Macron and Merkel on both sides. The organizer is Turkey, and the symbolic diplomatic language Erdogan is conveying is quite clear: it’s us, Russi...