Turkey ready for U-turn on letting in US forcesNICHOLAS BIRCH
Since January, U.S. officials have tried to broker the creation of a “safe zone” in northern Syria to provide a security buffer between the Turkish military and Kurdish forces, but Turkey has repeatedly objected to its slow implementation. The White House announcement Sunday came a day after...
The withdrawal of US forces as been completed by greater than 50 percent, the US Central Command said last week. Turkey has reportedly said it is prepared to keep troops in Afghanistan to protect Kabul airport, the main exit route for western diplomats and humanitarian workers. According to AFP...
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"According to the incoming reports, on January 20, Turkey started using the units of its armed forces near Afrin in northwestern Syria. The Turkish General Staff has announced that the Turkish military shelled positions of the Syrian Kurds in response to provocative shelling by militants of the ...
Both men emphasized the need to avoid letting anything block the planned withdrawal of US forces from Syria, Ankara added. In a Tweet late on Monday, Trump said he and Erdogan “spoke about economic development between the US & Turkey - great potential to substantially expand!” ...
The US created the largely-Kurdish SDF in October 2015, and the Forces finally removed the Islamic State from the northeast this spring. But Turkey considers the YPG militia as “terrorists” who are part of the Turkish Kurdish insurgency, which has fought Ankara’s forces for...
special forces outpost. The statement said that Turkey was not targeting the U.S. troops and that precautions were taken to prevent damage to the U.S. fortification. The artillery fires landed on the third day of a Turkish military operation targeting America's Kurdish allies in norther...
has acknowledged it is in the process of creating a terror army on our border. What we have to do is nip this terror army in the bud…” Saying that Turkey’s allies should not dare help what he termed terrorists in Syria, he declared, “We won’t be responsible for the consequences...
TEHRAN, Jun. 01 (MNA) – News sources reported that Turkish forces had targeted the US coalition positions in Syria for the first time.