Tag: Afrin

ISTANBUL: Amnesty International on Thursday accused Turkish forces of allowing Syrian armed groups to commit major rights abuses in the northern region of Afrin,...

ANKARA: Turkish forces will not remain in Syria’s Afrin and will leave the region to its “real owners”, Ankara’s main spokesman said on Monday,...

Rebel group rejects Russia's surrender demands BEIRUT: Thousands of civilians were fleeing from besieged enclaves at opposite ends of Syria on Friday as two...

ANKARA: Turkey’s military and its rebel allies have encircled the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the Turkish armed forces said on Tuesday, a substantial...

BEIRUT: Turkish forces have reached the outskirts of the town of Afrin after a weeks-long campaign against a Kurdish militia in northwest Syria, the...

SYRIA: A US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters announced on Tuesday it would redeploy around 1,700 members from front lines against the Islamic State group...

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon acknowledged on Monday that a Turkish offensive against a US-backed militia in Syria had affected the fight against Islamic State and...

BEIRUT: Turkish shelling and air strikes killed 13 people in the town of Jandiris in Syria’s Afrin region on Monday, Kurdish militia said, while...

ANKARA: Eight Turkish soldiers have been killed and a further 13 wounded in an attack by Kurdish fighters in the North-Western Syrian enclave of...

As Turkey continues its military operation in Syria's Afrin, a debate is heating up among Turks whether the Syrian refugees should be sent back...

Pro-government Syrian forces started moving towards Kurdish-controlled Afrin enclave in northern Syria, according to the state TV. The move came just a day after the...

ISTANBUL: A Turkish army helicopter was shot down by Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters near the north Syrian town of Afrin, President Tayyip Erdogan said...

Amid criticism that Turkey's ruling party is seeking to exploit the ongoing military operation against Kurdish militia in Syria for domestic political gains, most...

ANKARA: Turkey has killed at least 260 Syrian Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants in its four-day-old offensive into the Kurdish-dominated Afrin region of...

AFRIN: The Turkish army said it launched new strikes on Saturday against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in northern Syria, amid mounting...

NEW YORK: The UN on Friday reiterated a call on all concerned parties to avoid actions that would further escalate tensions in Syria’s northern...

WASHINGTON: Turkey may expand its operations in northern Syria to Manbij city and east of the Euphrates River after Afrin has been cleared, Turkey’s foreign...