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Turkey's Syria incursion
Turkish artillery attack hits near school in Syria killing 8 children, 3 others: monitor
Eight children were among 11 civilians killed on Monday in a Turkish artillery attack that hit near a school in a northern Syrian town...
Turkish-backed militants abused civilians in Syria, says Human Rights Watch
Factions
of the Syrian National Army (SNA), a non-state armed group backed by Turkey in
northeast Syria, have summarily executed civilians and failed to account for
aid...
Russia rebuffs Turkey’s threat to launch new operation in NE Syria: report
Russia said on Tuesday it was bewildered by a Turkish
pledge to conduct a new military operation in northern Syria if the area was
not cleared...
US diplomat says Turkish-backed militia committed ‘war crimes and ethnic cleansing’ in Syria: report
A top American diplomat on the ground in northern
Syria has criticized the administration of President Donald Trump for not
trying harder to prevent Turkey’s military...
Turkey captures sister of dead ISIL leader al-Baghdadi: report
Turkey captured the sister of dead Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Monday in the
northern Syrian town of...
Turkey will fire on any Kurdish militants in safe zone after end of ceasefire: report
As a five-day ceasefire in Ankara’s Syria military
operation expires tomorrow at 10 p.m. local time, Turkish security sources told
the Hürriyet Daily News that if...
Iran opposes Turkey’s establishing of military posts inside Syria: report
Iran is not in favor of Turkey’s
establishment of military posts inside Syria, Iranian Foreign Ministry
spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Monday, adding that the territorial...
German FM says Turkey ‘invasion’ illegitimate under int’l law
German Foreign Minister
Heiko Maas has described Turkey's offensive against Syrian Kurds as an
"invasion" and said Berlin saw it as illegitimate under international
law, Deutsche Welle...
EU Council chief: Turkey’s 5-day halt of military operations ‘not a ceasefire’
European Union Council President Donald Tusk on Friday
said the halt of Turkish hostilities announced in northern Syria is not a
genuine ceasefire and called on...
Clashes continue in NE Syrian town despite ceasefire announced by Turkey, US
Fighting is continuing on the border between Syria and
Turkey, according to witnesses, despite an announcement from US Vice President
Mike Pence that Ankara had agreed...
Turkey arrests 34 critics of Turkish incursion into Syria
More than 200 people
have been detained while 34 have been arrested for criticizing on social media
or protesting a Turkish military incursion into northern Syria,...
Erdoğan holding 50 US nuclear weapons ‘hostage’ at Turkish air base: report
US officials from the State and Energy
departments are quietly reviewing plans to evacuate up to 50 US tactical nuclear
weapons that have long been stored...