RT | Patrick Henningsen: The Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria has become a new geopolitical pivot point in the conflict. With so many actors interests overlapping, whose positions will be weakened and whose solidified if hostilities escalate? With so many different agendas now converging along the borderlands, many fear that Turkeys latest ...

February 11, The Iran Project - According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, so far over 68 civilians, including 21 children, have been killed in Turkish shelling in northwestern Syrian city of Afrin. Turkey launched the alleged "Operation Olive Branch" in Syria's Afrin on January 20 in a bid to eliminate the Kurdish People's ...

Alwaght- Turkish offensive on the city of Afrin in northwest Syria in late January should be regarded as symbolizing Ankaras foreign policy in dealing with various regional cases. Turkish military forces, along with allied Syrian militant groups, have managed to seize the predominantly Kurdish Syrian canton after a 58-day aggression, which is ...

Press TV- Turkeys defense minister says Syrias northern city of Afrin would be handed over to a central government in Syria when a new administration has been formed following elections. Speaking to reporters in parliament on Tuesday, Nurettin Canikli said Turkey would continue to take measures in Afrin until all terror threats in the region are ...

Press TV- The Turkish military says ithasestablished full control over Syrias Afrin town after more than two months of battles with the US-backed militants controlling Syrias northern border regions. All villages have been cleared from terrorists. Afrin is under full control [of Turkish Armed Forces], the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces ...

RT- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Monday for greater access to the civilian population of Afrin. The ICRC said that the Turkish Red Crescent lacked credibility among the Syrian Kurds after Turkeys military operation, according to Reuters. ICRC President Peter Maurer, speaking on return from a two-week trip to Syria,...

Alwaght- The Turkish army has announced that its units have completed their encirclement of Syria's northern region of Afrin, where the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a military campaign, dubbed Operation Olive Branch, against the Kurdish militias on January 20. Reports made by the human rights activists suggest that some 300,000 civilians ...

MNA Units of Turkey -backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) group have seized control over the Kurdish-held northern Syrian city of Afrin, Syria. Turkish military and its backed FSA have taken control of Afrin town center, as part of Turkey's Operation Olive Branch to clear PKK-linked People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, Turkish President ...

Reuters - President Tayyip Erdogans remarks about Turkeys military and its rebel allies capturing northern Syrias Afrin town refer to the completion of the towns encirclement by Wednesday evening, not its fall, a source in Erdogans office said. In speech, Erdogan had said he hoped Turkish forces would completely capture the town of Afrin by Wednesday ...

Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his countrys troops will enter Syrias northern city of Afrin at any moment, less than two months after Ankara launched a full-scale cross-border offensive into the Arab country in a declared bidto eliminate the US-backed Kurdish People's Protection Units(YPG) militants. Now our objective ...

Sputnik There are no contradictions over Turkeys Olive Branch operation in Syria's Afrin between Ankara and Moscow, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. "We have no disagreements withRussia overAfrin. InIdlib, a process ofsetting upthe observation posts is underway. At the moment, we have already created eight such posts....

SANA- Forces of the Turkish regime and its mercenaries of the terrorist groups on Friday night targeted Afrin area with all types of weapons, leaving 20 civilians martyred or injured in a new violation of the Security Councils resolution no. 2401. Civil sources told SANA that forces of the Turkish regime and the terrorist organizations targeted ...

SANA- A civilian was martyred and eight others were injured due to the continued Turkish aggression on Afrin area in northern Aleppo. Local sources told SANAs reporter that a 35-year-old civilian was martyred and five others injured when Turkish forces directed artillerys strikes on Yakhour village in Maabatli area. The Turkish continued ...

SANA The Turkish regime on Wednesday continued its aggression on Afrin area in Aleppos northern countryside with different types of weapons, causing the injury of a civilian in a flagrant violation of the Security Council resolution on ceasing the hostilities in Syria for 30 days. Civil sources told SANA that forces of the Turkish regime and its ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: Although the UN Security Council has called for a 30-day nationwide ceasefire "by all the parties" engaged in military activities inside Syria, the government of Turkey hasself-servingly ignored it and claimed, quite erroneously,that it does not cover its military operation, code named Olive Branch. The Turkish ...

Tasnim An American counter-terrorism analyst said Turkeys ongoing offensive in Syria's northwestern region of Afrin sends a clear message to Iran, Russia, and Syria that they should make big concessions in exchange for their political-military alliance with Ankara over the Arab country. Turkey is simply generating political and military capital in ...

Press TV - Human Rights Watch has criticized the Ankara governments ongoing cross-border offensive in Syrias northwestern region of Afrin against the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG), stating that the Turkish military has failed to adopt necessary measures to avoid civilian casualties. The New York-based group, in a statement released ...

RT- The latest developments in Afrin, Syria indicate a change of alignments in the Middle East, experts told RT. Some say Damascus could fill the vacuum created by the crisis, discomfiting the US. President Erdogan has announced that the Turkish army will encircle Syrias Afrin in order to oust Kurdish forces. The announcement comes amid reports ...

Press TV - The Turkish army has attacked pro-Syrian government forces that had earlierarrived in the Kurdish-held Afrin region in northwestern Syria to defend the Syrian Kurds against Turkeys offensive. "Turkish regime forces targeted the locations of popular forces with artillery fire as they arrived to the Afrin region," Syrias state news ...

Press TV- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey is set to lay siege to the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin, where the Turkish military has been fighting Kurdish militants over the past month. In the coming days, swiftly, we will lay siege to the center of the town of Afrin, Erdogan said on Tuesday to the lawmakers of his ruling Justice ...