According to reports from some local sources, at least 11 people (seven civilians and four pro-Turkish rebels) were killed in the explosion of a building "stuffed with explosives" in the city of Afrin, a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria conquered yesterday by Turkish army flanked by Syrian opposition rebels calling themselves the "Free Syrian Army" (ELS). The explosion [...]
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The fate of Afrin is still uncertain. As announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Syrian rebels backed by Turkey have taken total control of the center of Afrin: “The units of the Free Syrian Army, which are supported by the Turkish armed forces, have taken control of the center of Afrin. this morning at 8:30 ". Confirmed declaration [...]
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Redur Khalil, spokesman for the People's Defense Units (YPG), called the hope expressed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to conquer the Kurdish enclave Afrin by tonight "a daydream". Khalil went on to say that “The city has hundreds of thousands of inhabitants and fighters will prevent the Turkish army and its [...]
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Antonio Tajani, opening the extraordinary session in Strasbourg, on behalf of the European Parliament called for the "Rapid implementation of the UN Security Council resolution, and a lasting ceasefire" in Syria. "There is an urgent need to ensure the protection of civilians - said Tajani - to evacuate the wounded and [...]
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The offensive launched by the Turkish army on Afrin, a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria, will be extended to other locations as far as the border with Iraq, including Kobane, the Kurdish city that became famous worldwide for having marked the first defeat in January 2015 of the jihadists of the Islamic State (Isis) after a long siege that lasted over 4 months. It [...]
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Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister, in a statement reported by Turkish CNN, said that Turkey is planning a military operation in Iraq against the Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) together with the Iraqi federal government. "Even if the Afrin operation has not yet been completed, we have the ability to bring [...]
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High-level Kurdish-Syrian sources reported that the Damascus government has reached an agreement for the military support of the Syrian government forces to the Kurdish ones in the enclave of Afrin, under attack by Turkey and local allied militias in Ankara , from last January 20. In recent days, the Deputy Foreign Minister [...]
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz discussed the ongoing crisis in Syria in a telephone conversation late yesterday evening. This was reported by sources of the Turkish presidency, explaining that the two leaders also spoke of bilateral relations. During the telephone interview, Erdogan updated [...]
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Turkish troops are close to the center of the Syrian city of Afrin. This was stated by Erdogan commenting today on the third week of the "Olive Branch" operation launched by Turkey in Syria. As reported by the "Anadolu" agency, in front of the congress of the Justice and Development Party (Akp) in Bitilis, in the eastern part of the country, the Turkish president confirmed [...]
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The “Olive Branch” operation, launched on January 20 by the Turkish Armed Forces against the Kurdish militias of the People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, is nearing the end of its first week. The Turkish offensive, conducted with the allies of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a group of the opposition to the government of Damascus, is directed against Afrin, Azaz [...]
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According to reports by the Turkish governor, Mehmet Tekin Arslan, two rockets fired from the Kurdish-Syrian enclave of Afrin and, which fell on the border town of Kilis, hit a mosque, causing at least one victim and 13 injured, some of whom would be in life threatening. The Turkish media attribute the launch to the Kurdish fighters of the YPG, accused, [...]
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The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced on Saturday the start of operations by the Ankara army and the allied Syrian militias (FSA) in Afrin and, subsequently, in Manbij, against the positions of the Ypg, party militias of the Democratic Union (Pyd), a Syrian Kurdish formation that is part of the opposition to the government of Damascus. The operation, called "Olive Branch", [...]
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In Syria yesterday the Turkish offensive against the Kurdish militias in Afrin began. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the operation aims to create a "safety zone" with a depth of 30 km from the Turkish-Syrian border. Currently, about 32 fighter-bombers engaged in the Ankara aviation which, they declared to have destroyed, at [...]
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