7-14 October 2019
21 October 2019
President Trump wrote a demeaning letter full of threats to President Erdoğan, sent the day Turkey launched its military offensive into Syria. The letter was tossed but somehow surfaced on social media.
21 October 2019
The Syrian president's office has released video and photos of what it says is a visit by the President Bashar Assad to the troops in Idlib province on Tuesday, criticizing Turkey and calling for resistance to its recent invasion the country's northeast. Idlib is the last province of Syria where rebels are still holding out.c
21 October 2019
US troops leave Syria as Kurdish fighters & civilians withdraw from Turkey's 'safe zone'. The United States has evacuated Sarrin military base — the last major US base in northern Syria — with convoys of American troops crossing into Iraq.
21 October 2019
A convoy of US military vehicles was pelted with fruit and stones while traveling through Qamishli, near Syria’s border with Turkey, on October 21. The incident came after US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said troops pulling out of the region would head to western Iraq to continue the fight against Islamic State.
21 October 2019
President Donald Trump decided earlier this month to pull U.S. troops out of northeastern Syria, allowing Turkey to attack the U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds.
21 October 2019
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a speech at the TRT World Forum in Istanbul, has said the military offensive in Syria is not a land grab.
Erdogan also criticised Turkey’s allies for not supporting what he calls a fight against terrorists.
19 October 2019
Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Pregent says the Kurds are not happy with the Turkey cease-fire deal.
19 October 2019
Kurdish authorities have accused Turkey of breaking a ceasefire in northern Syria.
17 October 2019
U.S. and Turkey agree to Syria ceasefire to safely evacuate the YPG out of the safe zone. Vice President Mike Pence announced a ceasefire deal in Syria Thursday. The deal will suspend Turkey's incursion into Syria amid growing humanitarian concerns.
16 October 2019
The US, Daesh and the PKK: Explaining Turkey's operation in Syria. Turkey has launched another operation in Syria and is aiming to create a peace corridor by clearing out terrorist militias so the refugees it is hosting can return to Syria.
15 October 2019
Heavy fighting between Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and Kurdish-led forces in the border down of Ras al Ain was shown on Turkey’s Anadolu news agency video, Monday, October 14.
15 October 2019
Turkey's President Erdogan has dismissed a proposal for a ceasefire in northeastern Syria, insisting the operation will continue until his country's objectives have been achieved. But Erdogan finds himself on the back foot as the United States imposes sanctions and is sending a high-level delegation to Ankara, aimed at ending Turkey's offensive.
15 October 2019
In Turkey's way: Russia deploys patrols to northern Syria
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