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SPIEGEL ONLINE
March 29, 2018
Ultimately, the EU's refugee agreement with Turkey has merely served to shift the crisis: Fewer people are dying now in the Aegean, where the number of boat crossings to Greece has decreased since the signing of the agreement. Instead, people are now dying at the Turkish-Syrian border. Article.
ANSAmed
March 28, 2018
BEIRUT - ISIS is rearing its head at Syria's border with Iraq, according to local sources and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Sources said that over the past 24 hours, ISIS militants have attacked the positions of US-backed Kurdish-Syrian forces and Russian-backed Syrian governmentÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 28, 2018
On January 20, Ankara, jointly with the opposition Free Syrian Army forces, launched Operation Olive Branch in Afrin in order to "clear" Turkey's Syrian border from what is regarded as a terrorist threat. Turkey considers the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a Kurdish political party in northern Syria, and theÃâà...
Chicago Sun-Times
March 28, 2018
Israeli medical humanitarian work along Syrian border deserves U.N. recognition. A border fence separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria, east of the Israeli settlement of Ramat Magshimim. / Kahana Menahem / Getty Images. By. Randy Hultgren and Aviv Ezra. Though Syria and Israel shareÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 28, 2018
Ankara launched Operation Olive Branch in Afrin on January 20, in a bid to "clear" Turkey's Syrian border from a terrorist threat. The operation was harshly condemned by Damascus, which slammed Turkey's move as "a violation of Syria's sovereignty." Despite the fact that the Syrian Army was not sent toÃâà...
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 28, 2018
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Iraqi Armed Forces have taken full control of a Syrian border-crossing in the Nineveh Governorate, Al-Sumaria TV reported on Wednesday, March 28 morning, according to Al-Masdar News. According to the report, the Iraqi Armed Forces asserted full control over the KhansourÃâà...
Haaretz
March 27, 2018
Erdogan has vowed to extend the military operation along the Syrian border and on Sunday said the Turkish-led forces would take control of the town of Tel Rifaat. Many civilians and YPG have gathered in and around Tel Rifaat after Turkey seized control of Afrin. It is a Kurdish-controlled enclave, cut offÃâà...
The New Arab
March 23, 2018
Turkish security forces have regularly detained and summarily deported thousands of Syrian asylum-seekers at the Turkish-Syrian border since at least December 2017, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. Armed personnel have also reportedly shot and killed asylum seekers who tried toÃâà...
TRT World
March 22, 2018
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Ankara will unilaterally drive the PKK-linked YPG from the Syrian border if it does not reach an agreement with US on a plan to remove the group from Syria's Manbij. Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. (AA). Turkish Foreign Minister MevlutÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 21, 2018
At least twenty-three PKK and People's Protection Units (YPG) terrorists who attacked a gendarmerie command station in Şanlıurfa's Ceylanpınar district near the Syrian border have been "neutralized," the Turkish military said Tuesday. The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) uses the term "neutralized" inÃâà...
The Guardian
March 15, 2018
The aircraft is thought to be a HH-60 helicopter, which crashed near al-Qaim, a town in Anbar province close to the Syrian border, according to a US official citing initial reports. The helicopter was carrying seven people and fatalities were “likely”, the official told Reuters. The mayor of al-Qaim, AhmedÃâà...
NPR
March 13, 2018
Seven weeks into Turkey's Operation Olive Branch, a mission to clear Kurdish fighters from Syrian regions along its southern border, the Turkish military says its troops and Syrian rebel allies have nearly surrounded Afrin. They announced Tuesday that the central section of the border city and otherÃâà...
Rudaw
March 12, 2018
Related Stories. Iraqi forces, Shiite militia repel ISIS attack on Syrian border Iraqi forces free 11 SDF fighters from ISIS near Euphrates. More from Chris Johannes. Consul general sees Dutch institutions wanting to do more in Iraq Dutch diplomat views Kurdish presence at Kuwait forum as 'very important'Ãâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 9, 2018
An all-women international convoy made its final stop at southern Hatay province on Thursday to raise awareness for women imprisoned by the Bashar al-Assad regime. The International Conscience Convoy which calls itself the "voice of oppressed women in Syria" started its three-day journey with 55Ãâà...
P.M. News
March 5, 2018
Israel will respond if Iran continues to provoke the situation on the Syrian border, Israeli Foreign Ministry's Deputy Director-General Alexander Ben-Zvi said Monday. In February, former UN chief Ban Ki-moon expressed the concern that the latest developments in Syria, including the conflict on the borderÃâà...
Kuwait News Agency
March 2, 2018
ISTANBUL, March 2 (KUNA) -- New Turkish military reinforcements reached on Friday the border with Syria, as part of the "Operation Olive Branch." A convoy, which includes five trucks carrying guns, reached a crossing in the city of Kilis, opposite to the Syrian crossing of Bab Al-Salama, according toÃâà...
Frontline
February 28, 2018
An estimated 6,000 Turkish troops and 10,000 fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) militia crossed into Syria on January 20 threatening to drive the YPG out of Afrin town and all the area it has occupied along the Syrian border. The big problem for the Turkish army, however, is that the special forces of theÃâà...
Rudaw
February 21, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Hashd al-Shaabi in Iraq repelled a group of infiltrating ISIS militants on the Syrian border, killing a number of suicide bombers, ... The Hashd media office said on Wednesday that “troops deployed on the Iraqi-Syrian border, west of Mosul, thwarted an infiltration attempt by [ISIS]Ãâà...
Anadolu Agency
February 17, 2018
Volunteer medical teams in the southern Turkish city of Kilis are working 24 hours a day to heal both soldiers and civilians from across the border in Syria. Alongside the counter-terrorist Operation Olive Branch in northwestern Syria, near Turkey's border, a 120-strong Turkish National Medical Rescue TeamÃâà...
Sputnik International
February 10, 2018
A Turkish military helicopter was shot down during Ankara's military offensive against Kurdish troops in northern Syria, Anadolu State News agency reported. Two Turkish soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed, the Turkish General Staff said on Saturday. Turkish President Recep TayyipÃâà...
OilPrice.com
February 2, 2018
Iraqi security forces have arrested Islamic State's top oil chief while he was trying to cross the border into Syria, Tehran-based Fars News Agency reported on Friday, quoting military sources. The Iraqi forces ambushed the convoy with which the top ISIS terrorist—identified as Abdel-Ghani ZarghamÃâà...
New York Times
February 2, 2018
Last week, in a cafe in Kilis, a small Turkish city a few miles from the Syrian border, Lt. Col. Mohammed Hammadin was back for a few hours after leading an assault against Kurdish positions on a mountain south of the border. He is a former Syrian Army officer and a commander of the Levant Front, theÃâà...
NRT
December 31, 1999
SULAIMANI — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday (March 22) Ankara would drive the Kurdish forces away from the Syrian border if it did not reach an agreement with the U.S. on a plan to remove the Kurdish fighters from Manbij. “If this plan is not realized, the only option left will beÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Erdogan vowed to stop the Kurds from setting up what he calls a "terror corridor" along the Turkish-Syrian border. He threatened to take the fight further east in Syria, where U.S. forces are aiding their Kurdish allies -- setting up the possibility of even more tension between the U.S. and Turkey.
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
During Syrian conflict, 50 percent of the world's amphetamine seizures happened in the Arabian Peninsula, it is known that Daesh terrorists are addicted to the 'chemical courage.' A Jordan Army official said that the eastern military command, in coordination with the Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) andÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
The International Conscience Convoy, which describes itself as the "voice of the oppressed women in Syria" set off from Istanbul on Tuesday, March 6, in a journey across Turkey to southern Hatay province, at the Turkish-Syrian border. The Conscience Convoy of women from around 55 countries in 155Ãâà...
Anadolu Agency
December 31, 1999
Syrians who fled their homeland due to the civil war and the cruelty of the terrorist group YPG/PKK on Tuesday praised Turkey for fighting the terror group along the Turkish-Syrian border and opening their arms to refugees. Anadolu Agency spoke to refugees in tent cities built by Turkey's Disaster andÃâà...
AMN Al-Masdar News
December 31, 1999
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:25 P.M.) – Following just over a month of operations in Afrin, the Turkish Army and proxy militias under its command have seized the almost the entire region's border area with Turkey – along with it, most of the northwest Syrian border in general. Now it seems inevitable thatÃâà...
