We are close to the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of NATO and the tensions between the leaders of the 29 member states who will meet in London on 3-4 December are not abating. US President Donald Trump no longer wants to "subsidize" Europe. He wants it to spend at least 2014 per cent of GDP by 2 on [...]
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The Units for the Protection of Peoples (YPG), a Syrian Kurdish militia, today announced the death of the Italian citizen Giovanni Francesco Asperti, a native of Bergamo. This was reported by the Italian news agency Nova. The man of about 50, known by the battle name of "Hiwa Bosco", was "martyred in an unfortunate accident while he was in [...]
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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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