Boris Johnson tells Turkish media that Assad, Russia and Iran are carrying out a large proportion of the massacres in the city as fighting intensifies in residential areas
States concerned with the conflict are rushing to divide up the country and threatening both its existence and the fate of its people
US betrayed Syrian revolution because it wanted to destroy the country’s military infrastructure as it did in Iraq, says prominent thinker and author
Erdogan says Turkey has begun to give citizenship and work permits to Syrian refugees residing inside the country in an effort to reduce economic burden
Turkish charities and government institutions working to restore the city’s schools after facing a state of near collapse as a result of the brutal practices of ISIS
Syria has become divided between conflicting forces into spheres of influence
If what we hear is true, the solution is based on acknowledging the status quo and surrendering to the rule of the current regime despite the killing, destruction and displacement that it has carried out over the last five years.
“What happened recently for the Turkish leadership to decide to send its tanks and soldiers inside Syrian territory and support some of the rebel groups to regain Jarablus from ISIS?”
Turkish PM says all relevant parties, including the regime of Bashar Assad, were informed of Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield to prevent the establishment of a Kurdish corridor
Until recently, Damascus saw the Kurds as an ally able to help pressure a wide geographical area that needed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and at the same time would constitute a thorn in the Turkish throat, which was greedy to swallow Syrian geography and people at the same time.
Foreign ministry statement condemns Turkish army’s actions in northern city of Jarablus in fighting against Kurdish forces and the Islamic State group in the area
The clashes that have erupted in Hassakeh between the Kurdish PYD militia and the forces of Assad’s mafia regime may be one of the swift results of this common approach and a first indication of the new understandings between Turkey and Russia, which Iran may not be far from.
Turkish-backed rebels seize towns from Kurdish-led SDF as fighting intensifies between various groups in north Aleppo countryside
Following the recent Turkey-Iran-Russia strategic alliance, Assad sought to find a role to play in the Kurdish file, choosing to strike Hassakeh in order to be at the center of the Kurdish issue
Turkish tanks enter country’s north in order to protect Syria’s “territorial integrity” as US-led coalition vows to support major campaign from the air
Today, the governments of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria act based on a conviction they are reluctant to proclaim publicly, which is that the Kurds are more dangerous than ISIS
The new mechanism will be composed of intelligence services, foreign ministries and militaries of the two parties
Scores of Syrian factory workers lose their jobs following the failed coup attempt on July 15
It is expected that Russia will redouble its efforts politically and militarily until the end of this year to create a situation in Syria that allows them to achieve most of their aims from the intervention
Opposition parliamentarians reject controversial decision by Turkey’s president to begin handing citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees
