These are external links and will open in a new window/ Syria's Kurds reject Turkey's plans and say they will defend their territory at all costs The Turkish military has launched a major cross-border operation in north-eastern Syria against a Kurdish-led militia alliance allied to the United ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Activists say tens of thousands of people have fled towns along the Syria-Turkey border "It's like hell. I am afraid for all my family and everyone I know." Sevinaz is from a town near Syria's border with Turkey that immediately came under ...
Map of the border area between Turkey and Syria where Ankara launched an offensive against the Kurds to create a "buffer zone" (AFP Photo/Patricio ARANA)/ Beirut (AFP) - Syria's Kurds said Thursday that Turkish bombardment had hit a prison they use to house captured Islamic State group fighters, ...
Readers express dismay at the president’s actions, and one wonders, “So what’s in it for Donald J. Trump?”/ Let’s make no mistake about what Turkish forces are doing in Syria this week — naked unilateral aggression and illegal by any international norms. And it is aided and abetted by our ...
A picture taken from Akcakale in Turkey shows strikes on the Syrian town of Tal Abyad Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in northern Syria, as Turkish forces step up their cross-border offensive on Kurdish-held areas. Turkish troops have encircled the border towns of Ras al-Ain ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened Thursday that his country could “just open the gates and send 3.6 million Syrian refugees into Europe” if the classifies his military’s ongoing assault on Syria as an “invasion”./ Erdogan, in a speech to ruling party officials in Ankara, also ...
backed rebels from the Free Syrian Army, pictured here crossing the border into Syria, are also involved in the offensive Turkish forces are stepping up air strikes and a ground offensive, as their incursion into Kurdish-held areas of northern Syria enters a second day. Turkey's military said it ...
Iran opposes any Turkish military operation in Syria, Iran’s foreign ministry said in a statement on its website on Tuesday. The ministry has been following “worrying news of the possibility of the Turkish military forces entering Syrian soil and believes that the occurrence of such an action ...
, a published report said Wednesday, citing information from a Turkish military official./ Wednesday, Turkish communications director Fahrettin Altun called on the international community to “rally” behind Ankara, calling the Kurds “armed thugs” from which the local population needed to be ...
Local and international players have begun reacting to President Donald Trump's stated plans to pull troops out from northern Syria after an apparent deal with his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In the two days since the White House announced that the U.S. military would "no ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Turkey has launched a military operation against Kurdish-led forces in north-eastern Syria, days after US troops pulled back from the border. These maps help explain the offensive and its potential consequences./ Kurds make up between 7% ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Turkish troops prepare for the offensive in northern Syria Turkish troops have begun an offensive in northern Syria, which could bring them into direct conflict with Kurdish-led forces allied to the United States. The move was announced by ...
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called on Turkey on Wednesday to show restraint and avoid military action in northern Syria, as Ankara’s forces were poised to advance into an area there being vacated by the U.S. military./ FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a news conference ...
Iran’s army began an unannounced military drill in the northwest of the country bordering Turkey, Iranian Students News Agency ISNA reported on Wednesday, as Turkish troops prepare to enter the territory of Iran’s ally Syria. ISNA said the drill included rapid reaction units, mobile and offense ...
Iranian state media/ DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s foreign minister on Monday backed Syrian sovereignty and opposed military action in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart, state media said, after a U.S. pull-back of troops in northeast Syria appeared to open the way to a Turkish attack. ...
Thick murky clouds fill the sky, with freezing winds carrying snow faster than 100 miles per hour. With a frigid –30 degrees Fahrenheit temperature, life-threatening snowstorms and avalanches are frequent. And these are typical conditions on the world’s highest mountain: Mount Everest. The ...
The US state department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but says they will continue to receive US military backing./ All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current war./ Israel took ...
Nika was just 16 years old when she disappeared during protests against Iran's strict dress code for women [Atash Shakarami]/ An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran's security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces ...
A popular metro Atlanta Waffle House abruptly shut its doors down for good on Monday, The Waffle House below Eddie’s Attic on Decatur Square closed Monday at 2 p.m. A sign on the door confirms the closure and suggests other nearby Waffle House stores./ Staffers told the publication that they ...
It may be spring, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to summer weather, especially when – is rapidly weakening and will all but vanish by the time the season kicks into gear. El Niño’s disappearing act doesn’t mean relief from the heat. Not when the world is heating up due to climate change. In ...
, the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress, emerged early on as a natural advocate for supporting her native country in its war with Russia. But when effort came up for a vote in the House recently, she voted against it. Instead she has called for better oversight of U.S. funds and ...
a hunt brothers pizza - Instagram/huntbrotherspizza/ When you think of chain pizza places in the United States, there are a few big names that immediately spring to mind. Maybe you thought of , the chain that invented the 30-minutes-or-less pizza delivery guarantee. Or maybe , is what came to ...
Sam Attar reckons he left part of his soul in Gaza. It was the part of him that saw suffering and could not turn away. The part which now cannot forget./ You can be on the shores of Lake Michigan on an overcast spring day, the wind whipping up waves on the green water. And at the very same time ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the US is the only country that can stop Israel from attacking Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million people are taking refuge./ Mr Abbas, who runs parts of the occupied West Bank, said any attack could see Palestinians flee Gaza./ On ...
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