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Turkey vows to expand anti-PKK operations in northern Iraq

Erdogan says parliament to vote in January on Libya troop deployment

7:24 pm December 26, 2019

Ankara: The Turkish parliament will in January vote on a motion to send troops to Libya to support the UN-backed government in Tripoli, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday. “We will present the motion to send troops (to Libya) as soon as parliament resumes” on January 7, Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara. “God […]

At least 13 dead in car bomb in Syria border town: Ankara

11:25 pm November 2, 2019

Istanbul : At least 13 people have died Saturday in a car bomb blast near a market in a Syrian border town controlled by Turkish forces, Ankara and a rights watchdog said. “Based on first findings, 13 civilians were killed and around 20 others injured” in the explosion in the northeastern town of Tal Ayab, […]

Turkey to send back foreign Islamic State fighters

10:58 pm November 2, 2019

Istanbul: The Turkish government said on Saturday it would send foreign Islamic State fighters captured in Syria back to their countries of origin, despite the unwillingness of notably Europe states to take them in. “We are not going to keep them until the end of time,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters. “We’re not a […]

Erdogan says will clear ‘terrorists’ from Syria border if Sochi deal fails

9:02 pm October 26, 2019

Ankara: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey would “clear terrorists” on its border in northern Syria if Syrian Kurdish militia did not withdraw by the end of a deadline agreed with Russia. “If the terrorists are not cleared at the end of the 150 hours, we will take control and clean it […]

Moscow, Damascus deploy forces to Syria-Turkey border

8:05 pm October 25, 2019

Qamishli (Syria): Damascus and Moscow deployed extra forces Friday to Syria’s border with Turkey, even as Washington partially reversed a drawback to boost its own military presence near key Syrian oil fields. The United States earlier this month announced a pullout from Kurdish-held areas in northeast Syria, allowing Damascus, Ankara and Moscow to carve up […]