Ankara considers the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) a terrorist group affiliated with the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) which has fought an insurgency in southeastern Turkey since 1984. Al-Watan, a daily Egyptian newspaper, conducted [ More … ]
End of Operation Euphrates Shield does not mean threats against Turkey are completely over, Fikri Isik says The end of Turkey’s military operation in northern Syria does not mean threats are over, Defense Minister Fikri [ More … ]
Turkey’s operation in Syria to achieve goal with success of operation in al-Bab, says Numan Kurtulmus “If you say, ‘Let’s clean Daesh but place there PYD/YPG,’ in Raqqa, this becomes a national security issue for [ More … ]
As part of the ongoing Euphrates Shield Operation, the Turkish military neutralizes 22 Daesh terrorists and destroys 272 Daesh positions in northern Syria in the past 24 hours The Turkish military destroyed 272 Daesh targets [ More … ]
The Turkish military operations in Syria against both ISIS and the Kurdish militias have made great success in cleaning the border area of militant presence. However, this advance didn’t suit Assad regime which threatened Turkey and [ More … ]
Syrian rebel fighters, backed by Turkish military, started a new offensive to drive Islamic State from the Syrian city of al-Bab, competing with Kurdish militias who sought to control the city and threatening the Kurdish [ More … ]
Islamic State militants captured several villages from Syrian rebels in a counter-attack near the Turkish border that forced the foreign-backed insurgents to retreat, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The rebels, whom Turkey has [ More … ]
– Since the start of Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military has so far destroyed over 1,990 Daesh targets – The Turkish army hit at least 49 Daesh targets in northern Syria early Friday as part [ More … ]
The Turkish military said 67 ISIS targets were hit and five militants were killed Saturday in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield. According to a statement issued by the Turkish General Staff on [ More … ]
Syrian people returning to the liberated city of Jarablus are happy to observe their first terror-free Eid al-Adha in two and a half years. Jarablus was cleared of ISIS on August 24, as part of [ More … ]
Now that control of the Turkey-Syria border has been wrested from the Islamic State (ISIS) between al-Rai and Jarablus, what will Ankara’s next target be: ISIS in al-Bab or the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) [ More … ]
Turkish army has sent more tanks into northern Syria to the west of a border town seized from the Islamic State (ISIS) group last week, opening a new front in a cross-border intervention aimed at sweeping its [ More … ]
Barely a month after the traumatic July 15 failed coup attempt, Turkey launched a military operation in Syria last week. Supported and armed by Turkey, Free Syrian Army units swiftly took control of border town [ More … ]
Turkey wants to clear Islamic State from a 90 km (56 miles) stretch of territory on the Syrian side of its border, an official said on Wednesday, a week after launching an operation that have [ More … ]
By: Ibrahim Karagül* – Turkey did not initiate any war; a war was waged on Turkey. Operation “Euphrates Shield” is a defense that started from Jarabulus. July 15 was the main frame of this war. [ More … ]
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