Turkish security officials said it had seized control of most of the Kurdish-held city of Manbij. Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, director of the German Marshall Fund in Ankara, noted that Turkey would ...

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That, it seems, is no longer the case. For Turkey, several senior Pentagon officials and military officers say, the U.S.-supported YPG victory at Manbij (made possible by air cover provided by the ...

We will clear Tall Rifaat, Manbij, and Ain al-Arab (Kobane - TASS)", Erdogan told parliament on Wednesday. Since 2017, Turkey has conducted three military operations in northern Syria: in ...

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The pro-Ankara groups succeeded in capturing Kurdish-held Manbij and Tal Rifaat in northern ... Washington's Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Turkey had "legitimate concerns" about Kurdistan ...

TASS/. Turkish troops will enter Syria’s Manbij if Kurdish units fail to leave the city, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC ...

Israel is likely concerned that any power vacuum could be problematic, with alarm bells being raised over Turkey’s role in Syria rather than that of Iran.

But the SDF operation, spearheaded by the Kurds, was reportedly aided by several US airstrikes west of the Euphrates near Manbij. Merve Tahiroglu, a research associate focusing on Turkey at the ...

Aleppo, SANA- Technical teams have commenced maintenance and rehabilitation operations at Tishrin Dam in the countryside of Manbij, Aleppo Governorate, paving the way for the restoration of its ...