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Syrian Turkmen see first step towards peace

The Turkey-backed operation to retake Jarabulus in northern Syria form Daesh was the “first step of Syrian peace”, the president of the Syrian Turkmen Assembly said Friday. Emin Bozoglan told journalists in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep that Operation Euphrates Shield was a...

Four years on, rebels begin Daraya exit

Syrian rebels and their families began evacuating a long-besieged Damascus suburb Friday as part of an agreement reached with the government following four years of grueling airstrikes and siege that left the suburb in ruins. The surrender of Daraya, which became an early symbol of the nascent...

Turkey indicates Syria incursion will endure for now

Turkish forces will remain in Syria for as long as it takes to cleanse the border of Daesh (ISIS) and other militants, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Friday, after a truck bombing by Kurdish insurgents killed at least 11 police officers. The suicide attack at a police headquarters in a...

Turkey PM denies Syria operation singling out Kurds

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim Friday denounced as a "bare-faced lie" suggestions in Western media that Ankara's military operation in Syria was singling out Kurdish people rather than extremists. "They either know nothing about the world, or else their job is to report a bare-faced...