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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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says militants from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) have not fully withdrawn from border areas of the so-called safe zone in northern Syria as specified in the agreements with Russia and the United States, and that US forces are still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.
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Turkey says it captured sister of slain Daesh leader in Syria
Nov 05, 2019 03:37A senior Turkish official says his country has captured the elder sister of the slain leader of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in what he calls an intelligence "gold mine" in northwestern Syria.
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Kushner gave Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman permission to arrest Khashoggi: report
Nov 04, 2019 08:58US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner gave permission to his friend, Saudi Arabia’s de-facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to arrest the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was brutally murdered last year, a whistleblower alleges.