HAMA, Syria (AA) – The statue of Hafez al-Assad, the father of current Syrian president Bashar, has been brought down by the public in Hama. Hafez launched a large-scale military operation against the Muslim Brotherhood in February 1982, resulting in deaths of at least 30,000 civilians. At least 17,000 civilians detained by the regime re...
Aleppo, Syria (AA) – Syria’s Assad regime forces continue their retreat as Aleppo International Airport, among other strategic locations, has been left to the PKK/YPG group, local sources said on Saturday. After the anti-regime armed groups entered the Aleppo city center, Assad forces handed over the Aleppo International Airport in...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday praised the recent momentum in bilateral relations with the US. “We are pleased with the positive atmosphere in Turkish-American relations in recent times,” Erdogan told some US think tank representatives at a roundtable meeting in New York. Erdogan arrived in...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The downing of a Turkish drone in Syria has in no way affected the ongoing anti-terrorism operation there, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday. “Following the terrorist attack that took place on October 1, 2023, our Armed Forces and Intelligence Organization carried out comprehensive operations against PKK/YPG ter...
Baghdad, Iraq – – AFP A senior military official in Baghdad said Tuesday that a drone which killed three Kurdish counterterrorism officers had originated in Turkey, and condemned the violation of Iraq’s sovereignty. Three members of the counterterrorism forces of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region were killed and three wo...
ANKARA (AA) – US Central Forces Commander Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla visited the al-Hol and al-Roj camps of displaced people in Syria, where the YPG/PKK group holds the families of ISIS members. CENTCOM said in a written statement that the visit took place on August 21. The visit involved “interactions with camp administrators as well […...
