Turkish soldiers are seen around the area of Mount Bersaya, north of the Syrian town of Azaz near the border with Turkey, on January 22, 2018 (AFP Photo/Saleh ABO GHALOUN)/ Beirut (AFP) - Syrian Kurdish leaders called on civilians Tuesday to take up arms to defend the Afrin enclave against a ...
ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - 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 northwest Syria, the Turkish military said on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump plans to raise concerns with ...
ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey seeks to avoid any clash with U.S., Russian or Syrian forces but will take any steps needed for its security, a Turkish minister said on Tuesday, the fourth day of its air and ground offensive against Kurdish forces in northwest Syria. The United States and ...
backed Kurdish forces on Monday pleaded with Washington to halt a Turkish offensive against them as it prepared to send reinforcements to the region. , raising alarm in Western capitals that Turkish troops are attacking the same fighters who helped defeat the Islamic of Iraq and the Levant ...
Syrian troops have retaken the strategic Abu al-Duhur military airport, located deep within the country's final major pocket of rebel territory that was recently split in two by the pro-government offensive. After declaring victory over the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) late last year, the ...
As Russia, Iran, and the US strive to establish facts on the ground to maximize their chances of shaping postwar Syria, Turkey is posing a challenge to a key piece of the Trump administration’s emerging policy./ Residents watch as a truck transporting a Turkish Army tank, part of a convoy, is ...
A Turkish tank is seen on Sunday passing through the Bab al-Salameh border crossing into Syria, as Turkish forces launched an operation against Syrian Kurdish forces that Ankara considers 'terrorists' (AFP Photo/Nazeer al-Khatib)/ Aboard a US military aircraft (AFP) - Turkey gave Washington ...
Turkish troops advance near the Syrian border at Hassa, aiming to oust the People's Protection Units (YPG) militia/ Turkish troops advance near the Syrian border at Hassa, aiming to oust the People's Protection Units (YPG) militia (AFP Photo/BULENT KILIC)/ HASSA (Turkey) (AFP) - Turkey on Monday ...
"Stuck". That is the word most people who have spoken to the BBC use to describe life in Iran right now. After three days of Israeli attacks, "everyone is trying to escape" Tehran "one way or another," one resident told BBC News Persian. On Sunday, long queues formed at petrol stations across ...
The man accused of being responsible for holding the missing American journalist Austin Tice has claimed that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered his execution, security sources have told the BBC. Major General Bassam Al Hassan is a former commander in the Republican Guards who was ...
Two people were killed when a missile hit Rishon LeZion early on Saturday/ As sirens rang out across Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning, Ifat Benhaim and her family ran into their basement. "We closed the door, and suddenly there was such a big boom," she says. "I thought all the ...
Shifa hospital in Gaza City said 12 people were killed by Israeli fire as they waited for a convoy of aid lorries on the coastal road/ At least 15 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire as they gathered near an aid distribution centre in central Gaza, hospitals say. Officials at al-Aqsa ...
Friday night saw Israel and Iran exchange a barrage of air strikes/ For now the fighting between Israel and Iran seems restricted to the two nations. At the United Nations and elsewhere there have been widespread calls for restraint. But what if they fall on deaf ears? What if the fighting ...
Some Israeli attacks hit populated areas in Tehran and other places/ Beyond Israel's stated goal of destroying what it calls an existential threat from Iran's nuclear capabilities with its attacks on Friday, Benjamin Netanyahu has a wider aim - regime change in Tehran. Under this scenario, he ...
Iranian state media says 78 people were killed in the capital alone and more than 300 injured/ The Iranian regime remains deeply unpopular, and many citizens have shown little sympathy for the assassination of senior military commanders, figures widely seen as responsible for brutal crackdowns ...
Clockwise from top left: Late Hamas leaders Mohammed Sinwar, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Marwan Issa/ With the confirmed killing of Hamas's top military commander Mohammad Sinwar in an Israeli strike, a chapter has closed on the elite leadership group in Gaza that orchestrated the events of ...
Six activists who were detained by Israel after their boat was intercepted on its way to try to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza have been deported, the Israeli foreign ministry has confirmed. Earlier, Israeli human rights group Adalah said they were being transferred to Ben Gurion ...
and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began delivering aid to Gaza last month/ The new group backed by Israel and the US for aid distribution in Gaza says Hamas attacked a bus transporting some of its Palestinian workers, killing at least eight people. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation ...