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... its core." On Monday, echoing Trump, Graham said on Fox News Channel that the current situation was Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan's fault and Turkey would face "crippling sanctions" from the U.S. on its economy. The Kurds have turned to the Syrian government and Russia for military assistance ...
... northern Syria before Turkey's offensive into Syria against Kurdish forces it sees as terrorists. The U.S. backed the Kurdish forces that fought against Islamic State fighters and has guarded thousands in detention centers. Mnuchin said it's important that Turkey not allow a "single" IS fighter to escape.
The Kurdish-led forces say they may not be able to spare enough forces to secure al-Hol, home to tens of thousands of IS-linked women and their children, and other detention camps holding more than 10,000 male militants.
... Cavusoglu, Stoltenberg also expressed worry that the Turkish offensive may "jeopardize" gains made against the Islamic State group in the war in Syria. Cavusoglu said Turkey expected solidarity from its allies. "It is not enough to say you understand Turkey's legitimate concerns, we want to see this solidarity in ...
... as by a number of NATO countries, of course Turkey. And the Kurdish group in Syria known as People's Protection Units, YPG, is an offshoot of this group that is designated. This group is now establishing a legal entity, a state-like entity along Turkey's border in Syria.
... forces ground attacks. "No advance as of now," he tweeted Thursday. The Observatory, a war monitor that has activists throughout the country, said that since Turkey began its operation, seven civilians have been killed. Turkey says it intends to create a "safe zone" that would push the Kurdish militia away ...
In our news wrap Wednesday, Turkish forces crossed the Syrian border, hours after their warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting U.S. allied Kurdish forces. Siobahn Kennedy of Independent Television News Reports. Also, Democratice presidential candidate Joe Biden for the first time said that President Trump should be impeached.
... warned recently that ISIS had established “resurgent cells” in Syria. When asked whether, by leaving northeastern Syria, the United States was giving the greenlight to Turkey to attack the Kurds, Pompeo responded, “well, that’s just false. The United States didn’t give Turkey a green light.” He did not ...
... Aboul Gheit said it also threatens to inflame further conflicts in eastern and northern Syria, and could lead to an IS revival. Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey; Mehmet Guzel in Akcakale, Turkey; Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran; and Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed.
... the Islamic State group by an alternative acronym. Turkey, which considers Kurdish fighters in Syria terrorists and links them to a decades-old insurgency in Turkey, has already launched two major incursions into northern Syria over the past years. The first was in 2016, when Turkey and Syrian opposition fighters ...
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