Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Monday redeployed from positions on Iraq’s Sinjar-Dohuk highway to a nearby border crossing. The Faysh Khabur crossing links the Duhok province in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region to both Turkey and Syria. “Peshmerga fighters have reclosed the...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the country's military operation in northwest Syria's Idlib province was largely completed but the neighboring region of Afrin, controlled by a Kurdish militia, remained an issue. Turkey's army began setting up observation posts in Idlib...
The U.S.-led coalition Tuesday denied striking Deir al-Zor city in eastern Syria after Damascus accused its jets of killing more than a dozen people. Syrian state television had said the U.S.-led coalition hit the government-held Qusour district, killing 14 civilians and wounding 32, on...
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Vitalina Bordova received a good morning text message from her husband Sergei, a Russian marine major deployed in Syria. Half an hour later, he was hit by mortar fire that killed him. Since he died on April 18, Bordova has been in dispute with the...
