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Turkey's invasion of northern Syria is a turning point in the anti-ISIS fight
Key Takeaway:Turkey is unraveling America’s anti-ISIS partner in northern Syria in order to position itself as a major power broker in planned operations to retake Raqqa City. Turkish Armed Forces...
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Turkey is getting close to finishing its border wall with Syria
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A concrete wall being built to stop illegal crossings along the length of Turkey's 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria will be finished by the end of February, an official...
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Watch a live stream of Kurdish forces taking back ISIS' largest city
Rudaw.net, a Kurdish news site, has a live stream set up near the frontlines of the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS.The Kurds, an ethnic group centered around the borders of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran,...
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The Syrian government is arming a Kurdish group to fight against the Turkish...
BEIRUT – A recently-formed group with ties to ruling Kurdish authorities in northern Syria has touted that it will soon launch attacks against Turkish forces backing Free Syrian Army factions.“The...
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Shi'ite militias say they'll join the offensive against ISIS in Mosul imminently
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite militias said on Friday they would launch an offensive against Islamic State west of Mosul imminently, a move which would block any retreat by the Sunni jihadists into...
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A top Kurdish commander has been assassinated near the Turkish border
BEIRUT - A top commander in the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) has been assassinated in mysterious circumstances near the Syrian-Turkish border, according to local media outlets.On Wednesday,...
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ISIS' capital city in Syria could be isolated 'by the spring'
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Western-backed Syrian forces should isolate Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria "by the spring" before an offensive on the city itself, British Defence Secretary Michael...
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US Central Command shares photos of Kurdish women fighting ISIS in response...
US Central Command on Tuesday tweeted out photos of Syrian women fighters who have joined the campaign against ISIS in the country."Those photos were taken by CENTCOM's spokesman who travelled to Syria...
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US-backed fighters turn territory over to Syrian government to create buffer...
Manbij (Syria) (AFP) - US-backed Syrian fighters have turned over several villages in the country's north to government forces under a deal to avoid conflict with Turkey, a spokesman told AFP on...
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Turkish army says 2 of their soldiers, 6 Kurdish militants killed in clash...
Two Turkish soldiers died and two more were wounded in a clash with Kurdish militants in a rural area of southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border on Friday, the armed forces said.The military later said...
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Turkey's Erdogan says 'seriously saddened' by US flags with Syrian YPG
Istanbul (AFP) - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said Ankara was "seriously saddened" by footage showing American military vehicles operating close to the border with Syrian Kurdish fighters...
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US-backed forces just got ISIS to surrender a Syrian city, and it's not the...
US-backed forces got ISIS fighters to surrender a Syrian town near Raqqa, and, surprisingly, it's not the first time.The Syrian Arab Coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces "completed the liberation of...
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Turkey says US arming Syrian Kurdish militia 'extremely dangerous,' urges...
Ankara (AFP) - Turkey on Tuesday said the US arming of a Kurdish militia force deemed a terror group by Ankara was "extremely dangerous," and urged Washington to reverse its "mistake.""Such steps are...
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US reportedly tells Turkey it will take weapons from Kurdish militia after...
ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told his Turkish counterpart that weapons provided to the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria would be taken back once Islamic State was defeated, Turkish...
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MATTIS: US may arm Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria even after Raqqa falls
MUNICH (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday left open the possibility of longer-term assistance to Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, saying the U.S. may need to supply them weapons and...
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Turkey appears to have revealed the locations of US special-forces bases in...
The Pentagon has voiced concerns to Turkey after the NATO ally's state news agency disclosed the locations of 10 US military posts in northern Syria, an official said Wednesday.The Anadolu Agency (AA)...
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US-backed Kurds release video showing them destroying a Turkish tank in Syria
US-backed Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in Syria released a video on Saturday showing their fighters destroying a tank being used by Turkish-backed rebels in northwest Syria, Military Times first...
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Kurdish leader Barzani resigns after bungled independence push and violence...
Masoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurdish people in Iraq, has resigned following violence at Kurdish parliament.Kurdistan's recent troubles started after Kurdish forces expelled ISIS from the region...
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Russia and Turkey are threatening the US' new Kurdish-dominated force in Syria
Russia and Turkey have threatened the US-led coalition's new Kurdish-dominated "Border Security Force."The US acknowledged on Sunday that it is training a force of 30,000 personnel to operate along the...
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Turkey is holding up NATO military plans because of a dispute over Syria
Turkey is withholding its backing of a NATO defense plan until the alliance offers more Ankara more political support for its fight against the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria.The defense plan, meant to...
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