US National Security Adviser John Bolton has arrived in Turkey to try to hammer out a deal for Kurdish fighters in Syria, as the United States prepares a military withdrawal from the country. Bolton touched down in [ More … ]
Donald Trump has been defending his decision to withdraw all US troops from Syria, and end an air campaign against ISIS. After historic victories against ISIS, it’s time to bring our great young people home! pic.twitter.com/xoNjFzQFTp [ More … ]
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura set to review joint proposal with foreign ministers in Geneva. The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura is set to hold talks with foreign ministers from Iran, Russia [ More … ]
Turkey will carry out a military operation east of the Euphrates River in Syria in a couple of days, and this step will facilitate the country’s political solution, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. [ More … ]
Istanbul summit addresses numerous issues, including Idlib demilitarised zone, constitutional reform and refugees. A four-way summit on Syria has ended with no major breakthrough, even as the leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France agreed [ More … ]
Turkish, Russian, German, French leaders to hold summit on Syria in Istanbul on Oct. 27 A four-way summit between the leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France on the conflict in Syria will be held [ More … ]
Turkish military shares pictures of Turkish and US soldiers during training Soldiers from Turkey and the U.S. continue joint training on combined patrols in Manbij, northern Syria, the Turkish military said on Sunday. The Turkish [ More … ]
Israel’s Quneitra border crossing was closed four years ago at height of the conflict in neighbouring Syria Israel announced Thursday that it had made all necessary preparations to reopen its main border crossing with Syria [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Russian leader’s presidential residence on Monday in the coastal city of Sochi. Erdoğan said on Monday that a joint [ More … ]
The agenda has already changed, but I want to write about the Tehran Summit and the Idlib issue. To begin with, let’s recall what happened at the Tehran Summit, which was attended by the presidents [ More … ]
We have entered the eighth year of the crisis in Syria and nowadays are in a situation in which it is acknowledged that the whole matter leads to the borders of Idlib. Now everyone is [ More … ]
Russia’s Ambassador to Ankara Aleksey Yerkhov has described the upcoming summit in Tehran with the participation of the leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran as the “best opportunity” for resolving the Syrian problem amid concerns [ More … ]
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Russia, Iran and the United States have a responsibility in the violations of the ceasefire in Syria’s Deraa. “Syria regime guarantor countries are Iran and Russia, opposition’s guarantor country [ More … ]
The proxy war between the U.S. and Russia is a “dangerous path” to take, Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmus said. Speaking at Istanbul Forum for Arab Journalists in Istanbul, Kurtulmus said: “I am [ More … ]
Riyadh said it offered to deploy troops to help stabilise the situation in Syria when President Barack Obama was in power Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir reaffirmed on Tuesday the kingdom’s willingness to deploy troops [ More … ]
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