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 ...
backed body has warned that more than half a million people across Gaza are facing "catastrophic" conditions characterised by "starvation, destitution and death"/ Residents of the Gaza Strip have described to the BBC the effects of severe hunger on their bodies, after a UN-backed report Reem ...
Gaza City and its surrounding area is now experiencing famine, a UN-backed body of food security experts has confirmed. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which is used by governments and international bodies to identify food insecurity and malnutrition levels around the ...
Israel's military says it has warned medical officials and international organisations to prepare for the planned evacuation of Gaza City's one million residents ahead of an offensive to occupy it. The officials were told that "adjustments" were being made to hospitals in southern Gaza to ...
The UK is among 27 countries backing a statement calling for Israel to allow immediate independent foreign media access to Gaza. France, Germany, Australia, and Japan have also signed - an intergovernmental group which advocates for the rights and protection of journalists globally. The ...
Pope Leo XIV is preparing to travel to Lebanon later this year, in what could be his first journey abroad since being elected head of the Catholic Church in May. Archbishop Paul Sayah, deputy to Lebanon's highest-ranking Catholic leader, told the BBC the Vatican was "studying" the trip but that ...
The Israeli military says it has begun the "preliminary actions" of a planned ground offensive to capture and occupy all of Gaza City and already has a hold on its outskirts. A military spokesman said troops were already operating in the Zeitoun and Jabalia areas to lay the groundwork for the ...
Netanyahu said Anthony Albanese would be remembered as a 'weak politician'/ Israel's prime minister has accused his Australian counterpart of having "betrayed Israel" and "abandoned" Australia's Jewish community, after days of growing strain between the two countries. Benjamin Netanyahu said on ...
Hostages' families and their supporters want the Israeli government to agree a deal to end the war and bring them all home/ Arab mediators are awaiting a formal response from Israel after Hamas said it had accepted a new proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. The plan was ...
Thousands of Palestinians have been fleeing from intensifying Israeli strikes in parts of Gaza City in recent days/ Hamas has agreed to the latest proposal from regional mediators for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal with Israel, a source in the Palestinian armed group has told the BBC. ...
BBC News, Der Abu Falah, in the occupied West Bank/ The BBC's Lucy Williamson witnessed an attack by masked settlers/ From among the broken remains of Brahim Hamaiel's olive trees, in the occupied West Bank, we saw the masked men approach. A dozen settlers, charging down from the illegal outpost ...