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US forces will keep control of Syrian oilfields: Pentagon
Nov 08, 2019 04:56The Pentagon claims American forces will keep control of the oilfields in northeastern Syria to fund the Kurdish militia.
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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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Israel assisting Syrian Kurdish militants ‘through a range of channels’
Nov 07, 2019 04:12Israel’s deputy foreign minister has admitted aiding Kurdish militants in Syria amid a Turkish incursion into the Arab country.
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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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says militants from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) have not fully withdrawn from border areas of the so-called safe zone in northern Syria as specified in the agreements with Russia and the United States, and that US forces are still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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Assad: Liberating northern Syria from Kurds 'ultimate goal'
Nov 01, 2019 04:57Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his country's ultimate goal is to restore state authority over Kurdish-controlled northeastern regions in the wake of an abrupt US troop withdrawal and a Turkish offensive against the Kurds there.
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Syria urges Kurdish-led SDF to join national army in face of Turkish aggression
Oct 31, 2019 10:32Syria has called on the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to join the ranks of the national armed forces and help defend the country against the Turkish aggression.
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Turkey says Kurdish militants still in Syria ‘safe zone’ as deadline looms
Oct 29, 2019 17:47Ankara says Kurdish militants of the so-called People’s Protection Units (YPG) have yet to fully pull out of border areas in Syria’s north as a deadline set by a recent Turkey-Russia deal for their withdrawal approaches.
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US military convoys cross back into Syria from Iraq: Observatory
Oct 28, 2019 14:46The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says several columns of US forces have crossed through the al-Walid border crossing point between Iraq and Syria and been redeployed in bases in north and northeast Syria, in a reversal of President Donald Trump’s earlier order to withdraw all troops from the country.
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Syria welcomes pullout of Kurdish armed groups to depth of 30 km from Turkish border
Oct 27, 2019 15:36Damascus welcomes the withdrawal of Kurdish armed groups in Syria’s northwestern regions to a depth of 30 kilometers from the Turkish border as part of a Russia-Turkey deal, saying the pullout rids Ankara of the pretext to keep up its acts of aggression against the Arab country.
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Erdogan says Turkey will clear Kurdish militants alone if Sochi deal fails
Oct 26, 2019 13:28Turkey has vowed to “clear” Kurdish “terrorists” from the so-called safe zone single-handedly in its border area with northeastern Syria if they do not withdraw by the end of a deadline agreed with Russia this week, days after Ankara launched a cross-border offensive into the Arab country.