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US imposes sanctions on Turkey over military operation
Oct 16, 2019 05:00The US President Donald Trump imposed late on Monday sanctions on Turkish senior officials and ministries.
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Turkey may be 'responsible' for executions of Kurds in Syria: UN
Oct 16, 2019 04:46The United Nations has warned that reported summary executions of civilians in northeastern Syria carried out by Turkish-backed Takfiri terrorists could constitute a “war crime,” and that the Ankara government could be “deemed responsible.”
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Pence, Pompeo leave for Turkey as Erdogan rejects ‘ceasefire’
Oct 16, 2019 04:10US Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have left for Turkey to seek “ceasefire,” an offer President Tayyip Erdogan has already dismissed.
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Syrian army troops take full control of Manbij
Oct 15, 2019 16:00Syrian army troops have established full control over Manbij, a city in the northern province of Aleppo, and its nearby settlements, amid Turkey’s cross-border invasion in northeastern Syria and an abrupt US retreat of its forces from the city.
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Turkey arrests 4 Kurdish mayors amid Syria offensive
Oct 15, 2019 11:35Turkey has arrested four mayors from the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), in an apparent crackdown on critics of Ankara’s latest offensive against Syria.
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HRW: Europe must repatriate Daesh inmates from Syria
Oct 15, 2019 09:39Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned against the transfer of the Daesh terror group’s European members from prisons in northern Syria to Iraq in the wake of an ongoing Turkish offensive, saying that the European states should instead repatriate them for prosecution.
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US imposes sanctions on Turkey over Syria offensive
Oct 15, 2019 04:24The United States has imposed sanctions on two Turkish ministries and three senior government officials over the country's military offensive against Kurdish militants in northern Syria.
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Syrian govt., not US, must protect Kurds against Turkey: Trump
Oct 15, 2019 02:31US President Donald Trump says the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other countries should be responsible for protecting the US-allied Kurds in northern Syria against a Turkish incursion, not the US which is "7,000 miles away" from Syria.
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EU ministers condemn Turkey's Syria incursion
Oct 15, 2019 02:30Arms sales to Turkey is a multi-billion euro business for European Union member states but the bloc's foreign affairs ministers have agreed to suspend these sales over Ankara's attacks, which commenced last week, on Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.
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Syrian army troops enter key northern city of Manbij
Oct 14, 2019 17:22Syrian government troops have entered the northern Kurdish-held city of Manbij on the sixth day of Turkey’s aggression against the Arab country, state media says.