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For Iran, neighbors always come first, Zarif says at 24th ECO summit
Nov 10, 2019 03:54Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is in Turkey to attend the 24th meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), says for Tehran “neighbors always come first.”
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Government soldiers take back northern Syrian village from Turkish forces, allies
Nov 10, 2019 03:28Syrian government troops have retaken a village in the country’s Northeastern Province of Hasakah from Turkish military forces and their allied militants following intense clashes.
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In video: Locals pelt Turkish forces with stones, shoes in Syria’s Hasakah
Nov 09, 2019 04:27Dozens of people in Syria’s Northeastern Province of Hasakah have vented their anger by throwing stones at Turkish military forces for their presence in the area following a cross-border incursion by Turkish army troops and their allied militants against militants from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
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Erdogan says Turkey will not withdraw troops from Syria until other countries pull out
Nov 09, 2019 03:43Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country’s troops will not leave Syria until other countries pull out, insisting that Ankara will continue its cross-border offensive against Kurdish militants in northeastern parts of the Arab country until every one of them has left the region.
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Russia deploys military helicopters to protect Syria-Turkey border patrols
Nov 08, 2019 09:19Russia has deployed military helicopters to assist and protect its military police patrolling along Syria's border with Turkey.
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UN report finds Jordan, Turkey and UAE violated Libya arms embargo
Nov 08, 2019 09:16Jordan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have regularly violated the UN arms embargo imposed on Libya since 2011, according to a confidential report by UN experts seen on Thursday by reporters.
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Erdogan says US not honoring Syria deal ahead of Trump talks
Nov 07, 2019 11:33Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the United States is not fulfilling its pledge to remove Kurdish militants from a Syrian border region and that he would raise the issue when he meets US President Donald Trump next week.
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Scathing criticism for EU over Syrian refugee policies
Nov 07, 2019 04:49Once again the subject of EU asylum policy has been debated in the European Parliament. This time the focus was on reports that refugees are being forced to move from Turkey into war-torn northeastern Syria.
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YPG still not fully cleared from Syria safe zone, Erdogan says
Nov 05, 2019 11:23Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says militants from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) have not fully withdrawn from border areas of the so-called safe zone in northern Syria as specified in the agreements with Russia and the United States, and that US forces are still carrying out joint patrols with the militants.
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Delivery of Russian S-400 second batch might be delayed: Turkey
Nov 05, 2019 04:12A senior Turkish official says the delivery of a second batch of Russian S-400 missile defense systems may be postponed beyond a planned 2020 timeline after bilateral talks on technology sharing and joint production.