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Turkey seeks US support to maintain troops in Afghanistan

Turkey is reported to have offered to guard the Kabul's international airport as questions remain on how security will be assured along major transport routes and at the airport, which is the main gateway to Kabul.

2 years ago

Kurdish funeral

Fearing American abandonment, Kurds kept back channels to Damascus, Moscow wide open

When Syria’s Kurdish fighters, America’s longtime battlefield allies against the Islamic State, announced over the weekend that they were switching sides and joining up with Damascus and Moscow, it seemed like a moment of geopolitical whiplash.

4 years ago

US forces scramble for Syria exit as Trump announces sanctions on Turkey

Targeting Turkey’s economy, President Donald Trump announced sanctions aimed at restraining the Turks’ assault against Kurdish fighters and civilians in Syria — an assault Turkey began after Trump announced he was moving U.S. troops out of the way.

By Robert Burns, The Associated Press

4 years ago

US troops and allied Kurdish force patrol Syria-Turkey border

U.S. troops and an allied Syrian militia conducted a joint patrol Wednesday in a town on the border with Turkey, a Kurdish news agency and a Syria war monitor reported. The move appeared to be part of an agreement to set up a safe zone along Syria’s northeast border.

4 years ago

Turkey determined to destroy ‘terror corridor’ in Syria despite talks with US to establish a safe zone

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday his country is determined to destroy what he called a "terror corridor" in northern Syria — regardless of whether or not Turkey and the United States agree on the establishment of a so-called "safe zone" there.

4 years ago

Syria’s military says it entered flashpoint Kurdish-held Manbij; US troops reportedly still there

Russian and Syrian officials are working out an agreement for what happens when U.S. troops withdraw from the area.

5 years ago