President Donald Trump is expected to express American unease over a Turkish cross-border offensive into Syria, in a call scheduled with counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a US official said Tuesday.
"They are likely to talk soon," said a senior US administration official, confirming reports of a Trump-Erdogan call set for Wednesday.
The US is urging restraint from Ankara after theRead more
Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies pressed an assault on a border enclave held by Kurdish militia on Tuesday but the fighting was more narrowly focused, a monitor said.
Turkish warplanes carried out new strikes on the northwest of the Afrin enclave and also hit the outskirts of the mainly Kurdish-held city of Qamishli far to the east, woundingRead more
A Turkish soldier was killed as the country pressed its offensive against Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria, the army said, confirming the operation's first Turkish fatality on its third day.
"One of our heroic soldiers was martyred during clashes" with Kurdish militants from the People's Protection Units (YPG) militia southeast of the Turkish border town of Gulbaba in Kilis,Read more
Following the Syrian regime condemning Turkish military operations and “Operation Olive Branch” in Afrin on Saturday, the Assad regime opened up roads for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in order to transport weapons and reinforcements, the Anadolu Agency reported.
According to the news agency, the Syrian regime opened the PYD-PKK-held Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, andRead more
Turkish attacks in the Afrin region of northern Syria killed ten people on Saturday, mostly civilians, a spokesman for the Kurdish militia which controls the area said.
“Seven civilians were killed, including a child, as well as two female fighters and one male fighter,” said Birusk Hasakeh, spokesman for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin, adding that theRead more
Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria’s Afrin province on Sunday, media cited the prime minister as saying, as Ankara stepped up artillery attacks on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border.
NATO’s second-largest army entered northern Syria shortly after 11:00am, broadcaster HaberTurk cited Prime Minister Binali Yildirim as saying.
The Syrian-Kurdish YPG militia, supported byRead more
The Turkish border town of Kilis was struck by a missile fired from Syria on Sunday, a Reuters witness said, the fifth cross-border missile fired in the same day.
There were no immediate reports of casualties, as Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria's Afrin province after launching artillery and air strikes on a US-backed Kurdish militia it aims toRead more
Turkish air raids killed eight civilians on Sunday in the northern Syrian enclave of Afrin, according to a war monitor and a spokesman for the Kurdish forces that control the area.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead, who included at least one child, were killed in air strikes on the village of Jalbara.
"Eight civilians wereRead more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned of a "heavy price" Sunday for protests against his government's military operation targeting Syrian Kurdish militia, after the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) called on people to take to the streets.
"Some HDP representatives are calling on my Kurdish citizens to get out into the squares. Until now, not many people have come out,"Read more
Turkey on Friday started shelling the Syrian town of Afrin held by a US-backed Kurdish militia that Ankara considers “terrorists” in a move to oust them, the defense minister said.
The Turkish government has repeatedly warned that a full-scale operation against Syrian towns controlled by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, including Afrin, is imminent after the US saidRead more