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Turkey arrests 5 Kurdish mayors as crackdown continues
Mar 24, 2020 01:18Turkey has arrested five mayors of the Kurdish-majority areas as part of its ongoing crackdown against the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP).
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Bomb attack kills ten in Turkish-controlled northern Syria town
Jan 17, 2020 05:00Nearly a dozen people have lost their lives when a powerful car bomb explosion ripped through a northern Syrian border town seized by Turkish military forces and their allied militants in the aftermath of a cross-border incursion against militants of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
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Syria censures acts of aggression by Turkish forces against ordinary citizens
Nov 21, 2019 14:57Damascus has strongly condemned "criminal acts of aggression" perpetrated by Turkish military forces against Syrian people in the aftermath of a cross-border incursion into the northern part of the Arab country, calling on the international community to force Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop the measures.
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Unknown aircraft bombs headquarters of Yazidi militiamen in northern Iraq
Nov 21, 2019 02:25An unidentified aircraft has struck the headquarters of an Izadi militia group affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, leaving nearly two dozen people killed and wounded in the process.
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Nearly 20 people, mostly civilians, killed in car bomb attack in Syria’s Aleppo
Nov 17, 2019 02:27Nearly 20 people, including children, have been killed and dozens more wounded when a car rigged with explosives went off in Syria’s Northern Province of Aleppo, a monitor says.
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Turkish forces begin to establish base in northern Syria weeks after incursion
Nov 14, 2019 13:19Turkish army troops have begun setting up a military base in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, weeks after the forces, backed by allied militants, launched a cross-border incursion against members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
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Russia sets up helicopter base in northeast Syria
Nov 14, 2019 09:06The Russian military says it has begun setting up a new combat helicopter and air defense base at a formerly US-controlled civilian airport in northeastern Syria.
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Trump lauds Erdogan ties amid S-400 tensions, pro-Kurd protest
Nov 14, 2019 03:45US President Donald Trump lauds his relationship with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan amid S-400 tensions between Washington and Ankara.
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Turkish drone pounds village in Syria’s Hasakah amid cross-border incursion
Nov 10, 2019 12:51A combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), operated by Turkish military forces, has reportedly launched an airstrike against a residential neighborhood in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, in the aftermath of a cross-border incursion by Turkish army troops and their allied militants into the Arab country's Kurdish region.
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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.