RT - Ankaras operation against Kurdish-led militias in northeastern Syria has been criticized across Europe and the Middle East, as one country after another sounded the alarm over the impact to the Syrian peace process. The offensive by Turkish army and affiliated Syrian opposition militants kicked off on Wednesday with massive air and artillery ...

Press TV - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has cancelled his pre-planned trip to the Turkish city of Istanbul after Ankara announced the beginning of its military offensive against Kurds in northern Syria. Larijani was scheduled to visit Istanbul at the official invitation of his Turkish counterpart to attend a parliamentary meeting on Thursday....

Press TV - The United States has given the green light to Turkey tolauncha military operation against Washington'slong-time Kurdish allies in northern Syria. The decision came aftera phone conversation between US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday. Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned ...

Press TV - The US military says it has established observation posts in northern Syria with the purported aim of preventing clashes between Turkish forces and US-backed Kurdish militants, despite Ankaras strong opposition to the plan. At the direction of Secretary (James) Mattis, the US established observation posts in the northeast Syria border ...

Press TV - Turkeys Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has expressedindignation atphotos showing US troops dining with Kurdish militants near the Turkish border in Syria. "These photos have found wide coverage in our media and disturbed our people. They tarnished the image of the US and its army... for the Turkish public," hewas quoted by the official ...

TASS- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has accused the US of supporting the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and the Democratic Union Party, which Ankara considers to be terrorist organizations. "Today, the US supports terrorist organizations and this has to stop. Unfortunately, the YPG and the Democratic Union control ten percent ...

Press TV- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged Washington to immediately overturn its decision to arm Kurdish militants that Ankara regards as members of a terrorist group. "I hope very much that this mistake will be reversed immediately," Erdogan stated on Wednesday,following an announcement by the USthat it intends to supply arms ...

Press TV- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has expressed great resentment over the US administrations decision to arm Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG)fighters battling Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Syria, stressing that every weapon obtained bythe forces constitutes a threat to Turkey. Speaking to reporters while on a visit to ...

Alwaght- Rejection by the nations and some of governments in the West Asia region pushes the Israeli regime to steer clear of direct interventions in the regional crises and issues. Meanwhile, the US, Tel Avivs biggest and closest ally, along with a number of allied countries in the region, on the behalf of the Israeli regime, is manipulating the ...

The Syrian military has warned to intercept and bring down any Turkish fighter jets entering the countrys airspace, nearly a day after Turkish warplanes bombarded 18 positions of the People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, and killed up to 200 Kurdish fighters. "Any attempt to once again breach Syrian airspace by Turkish war planes ...

Turkey says itswarplanes have carried out more than twodozen airstrikes againstKurdish positions in northern Syria, killing scores of militants. Jets carried out 26 airstrikes againstYPG targets, killing160 to 200 militants, the Turkish army said in a statement on Thursday. The army saidjets hit militant targets in the villages of al-Hasiya,...

Militant groups operating in Syria have used yellow phosphorous in a chemical attack on a mainly Kurdish residential district in the northern city of Aleppo, a Syrian Kurdish group says. The Sheikh Maqsoud district in Aleppo was attacked with chemical weapons on Tuesday evening. Radical groups launched dozens of rockets filled with yellow phosphorus ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been irked by a US envoys meeting with Syrian Kurds inthe Syrian border town of Kobani, warning the US to choose either Ankara or the terrorists in the town as its ally. Last week, senior US diplomat Brett McGurk, along with a delegation, met members of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG), which ...

An official from the us Defense Department has said the US no longer delivers weapons to Syrian Kurdish militia the People's Protection Units (YPG), but rather provides arms to the Syrian opposition forces battling the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a policy shift that would soothe the concerns of Turkey, a NATO ally, over the expansion ...

[caption id="attachment_120861" align="alignright" width="171"] Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, as seen from the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc, October 10, 2014.[/caption] Fierce clashes have resumed between ISIL Takfiri terrorists and Kurdish fighters in Kobani as they continue to make more gains on the battlefield against extremist ...

[caption id="attachment_120479" align="alignright" width="201"] A Turkish army tank, on the Turkey-Syria border on Wednesday, with Kobani in the background. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP[/caption] Kurdish insurrection gathers steam against Ankaras inaction to protect Turkey as well as against Islamic State incursion The sense of betrayal is palpable....