These are external links and will open in a new window/ Syria's Kurds reject Turkey's plans and say they will defend their territory at all costs The Turkish military has launched a major cross-border operation in north-eastern Syria against a Kurdish-led militia alliance allied to the United ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Activists say tens of thousands of people have fled towns along the Syria-Turkey border "It's like hell. I am afraid for all my family and everyone I know." Sevinaz is from a town near Syria's border with Turkey that immediately came under ...
Map of the border area between Turkey and Syria where Ankara launched an offensive against the Kurds to create a "buffer zone" (AFP Photo/Patricio ARANA)/ Beirut (AFP) - Syria's Kurds said Thursday that Turkish bombardment had hit a prison they use to house captured Islamic State group fighters, ...
Readers express dismay at the president’s actions, and one wonders, “So what’s in it for Donald J. Trump?”/ Let’s make no mistake about what Turkish forces are doing in Syria this week — naked unilateral aggression and illegal by any international norms. And it is aided and abetted by our ...
A picture taken from Akcakale in Turkey shows strikes on the Syrian town of Tal Abyad Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in northern Syria, as Turkish forces step up their cross-border offensive on Kurdish-held areas. Turkish troops have encircled the border towns of Ras al-Ain ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened Thursday that his country could “just open the gates and send 3.6 million Syrian refugees into Europe” if the classifies his military’s ongoing assault on Syria as an “invasion”./ Erdogan, in a speech to ruling party officials in Ankara, also ...
backed rebels from the Free Syrian Army, pictured here crossing the border into Syria, are also involved in the offensive Turkish forces are stepping up air strikes and a ground offensive, as their incursion into Kurdish-held areas of northern Syria enters a second day. Turkey's military said it ...
Iran opposes any Turkish military operation in Syria, Iran’s foreign ministry said in a statement on its website on Tuesday. The ministry has been following “worrying news of the possibility of the Turkish military forces entering Syrian soil and believes that the occurrence of such an action ...
, a published report said Wednesday, citing information from a Turkish military official./ Wednesday, Turkish communications director Fahrettin Altun called on the international community to “rally” behind Ankara, calling the Kurds “armed thugs” from which the local population needed to be ...
Local and international players have begun reacting to President Donald Trump's stated plans to pull troops out from northern Syria after an apparent deal with his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In the two days since the White House announced that the U.S. military would "no ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Turkey has launched a military operation against Kurdish-led forces in north-eastern Syria, days after US troops pulled back from the border. These maps help explain the offensive and its potential consequences./ Kurds make up between 7% ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Turkish troops prepare for the offensive in northern Syria Turkish troops have begun an offensive in northern Syria, which could bring them into direct conflict with Kurdish-led forces allied to the United States. The move was announced by ...
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called on Turkey on Wednesday to show restraint and avoid military action in northern Syria, as Ankara’s forces were poised to advance into an area there being vacated by the U.S. military./ FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a news conference ...
Iran’s army began an unannounced military drill in the northwest of the country bordering Turkey, Iranian Students News Agency ISNA reported on Wednesday, as Turkish troops prepare to enter the territory of Iran’s ally Syria. ISNA said the drill included rapid reaction units, mobile and offense ...
Iranian state media/ DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s foreign minister on Monday backed Syrian sovereignty and opposed military action in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart, state media said, after a U.S. pull-back of troops in northeast Syria appeared to open the way to a Turkish attack. ...
Om Fahad was sentenced to six months in prison last year for her social media videos (file image)/ Iraqi social media influencer Om Fahad has been shot dead outside her home in Baghdad, according to local media reports./ The attack happened in the capital's eastern Zayne neighbourhood on Friday ...
Calif., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Report of Special Counsel John Durham, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democratic congressman who also is running for U.S. Senate had his luggage swiped from his car while it was parked in a downtown ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that , killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, ...
The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has had its opening performance in Riyadh - part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's massively ambitious plans to shift the kingdom into a new era, economically and socially./ Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with ...
A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned./ Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday./ Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a ...
) — A video of a fight between a student and a substitute teacher at a Las Vegas valley high school was shared on social media Thursday, sources said. A substitute teacher and a student engaged in a fight, which was caught on camera at Valley High School in east Las Vegas. Sources indicated that ...
A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a ...
A sign for the Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh's Market Square is pictured Feb. 8, 2016. Last week, the Newport Beach, California-based Mexican chain asked its U.S. and Canadian employees to temporarily select another protein option for their meals to preserve its supply of chicken. But the ...
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)/ NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with ...
The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. Hours after it was recorded, she died of brain trauma. The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan's former economy minister, in ...