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Kurdish forces in northeast Syria begin withdrawal along Turkish border
Oct 25, 2019 07:03Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria have left several positions along the long border with Turkey, complying with a deal between Russia and Turkey that saw the deployment of Syrian government troops to the border regions.
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Turkey to crush Kurdish militants if they don’t leave Syria safe zone: Turkish President
Oct 24, 2019 18:55On Thursday, Erdogan renewed a threat to resume a military offensive in northeast Syria through a televised speech, saying Ankara would implement its plans for another cross-border operation if YPG militants did not withdraw from border areas.
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Russia to deploy more military policemen, equipment to Syria
Oct 24, 2019 13:31A Russian official says the country will send more military policemen and equipment to Syria under a deal with Turkey that suspended the offensive against Kurdish militants along the border.
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Kurdish-led SDF militant group thanks Russia for defusing Turkey’s Syria incursion
Oct 24, 2019 08:31The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militant group has thanked Moscow for striking a deal with Ankara, which ended a Turkish offensive against Kurdish militants in northern Syria, welcoming the deployment of Russian and Syrian troops to the border regions as part of the agreement.
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Turkey, Russia agree to remove Kurdish militants from NE Syria, launch joint patrols
Oct 22, 2019 20:33Russia and Turkey have reached a deal to establish a safe zone long sought by Ankara in northern Syria, which will see Kurdish militants operating in the region removed to beyond 30 kilometers from the Turkish border.
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US forces move 1,500 Daesh women from Syria to Iraq amid Turkish offensive: Report
Oct 22, 2019 16:48US military forces have reportedly transferred more than 1,500 female members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group from Syria to neighboring Iraq in the wake of a ground offensive by Turkish troops and their allied militants against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.
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Erdogan, Putin hold talks as withdrawal deadline for Syria Kurds draws near
Oct 22, 2019 11:52Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as a deadline draws near for Kurdish militants to withdraw from Syria’s northern border areas near Turkey or face a renewed military offensive.
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12 militant prisons left unguarded due to Turkish offensive in Syria: Russia
Oct 21, 2019 19:28Russia says Turkey’s offensive in northeastern Syria has left 12 Syrian prisons for foreign militants as well as eight refugee camps unguarded, warning about the return of hundreds of terrorists to their home countries.
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Turkey mulls Syrian troops replacing Kurdish militants in 'safe zone'
Oct 20, 2019 13:20Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey does not want to see a single Kurdish militant left in the planned "safe zone" in northern Syria at the end of a fragile ceasefire in the region.
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Erdogan threatens to crush heads of Kurdish forces if they refuse to withdraw
Oct 19, 2019 19:57President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will “implement its own plans” if Ankara and Moscow fail to find a solution to the presence of Syrian government forces in a “safe zone” that his country seeks to establish in northern Syria, warning also that Ankara will “crush the heads” of Kurdish militants if a deal with Washington on withdrawal of Kurdish forces from the region is not fully implemented.