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In this file photo taken on September 27, 2018, Syrian men ride a motorcycle past heavily-damaged buildings in the rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan, in the north of Idlib province. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)
January 10, 2019, 11:53 pm
Al-Qaeda-linked group tightens grip over Syria’s last major rebel-held region
As Hayat Tahrir al-Sham grows dominant over other insurgent groups in rebel holdout Idlib, fears grow over a possible Russian-Syrian offensive
By AP
File: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at a meeting in Ankara, Friday, August 12, 2016. (Kayan Ozer/Presidential Press Service via AP)
August 29, 2018, 9:51 pm
Iran’s Zarif makes surprise visit to Turkey ahead of Syria offensive
Ankara watches warily as Assad allies Tehran and Moscow gear up for military action against major rebel bastion on its southern border
By AFP
Syrian civilians fleeing the city of Afrin in northern Syria are seen as they enter the town of Tal Rifaat in the government-controlled part of the northern Aleppo province, on March 18, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / George OURFALIAN)
March 18, 2018, 12:13 pm
Turkish-backed forces say Syria’s Afrin under their control
Kurds deny they have fled as Syrian fighters allied with Ankara move in, but say civilians evacuated because of ‘massacres’
By Agencies and TOI staff
File: A picture taken in the northern town of Afrin on February 2, 2018, shows smoke from burning tires, used to block the visibility of planes, billowing in the background as people walk on a bridge. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
March 16, 2018, 1:49 pm
Syrian Kurds say Turkish shelling, strikes kill 20 in Afrin
Turkish military urges tens of thousands of residents still inside the town to leave and Kurdish militiamen to surrender
By PHILIP ISSA
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters are seen in the village of Jamanli, northeast of the Syrian city of Afrin, on March 3, 2018, as smoke billows in the background from a reported Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) location. (AFP PHOTO / Nazeer al-Khatib)
March 3, 2018, 7:07 pm
Turkish airstrikes said to kill 36 pro-regime fighters in Syria’s Afrin
Human rights watchdog says over 140 civilians killed in month of deadly raids targeting Assad-loyalists in Kurdish enclave
By AFP
Civil Defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, carry a wounded man into a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held town of Douma, following air strikes by regime forces on the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on February 20, 2018. (Hamza Al-Ajweh/AFP)
February 20, 2018, 11:42 pm
Syria regime pounds rebel enclave, sends fighters to face Turkey
More than 200 civilians have been killed, among them 57 children, as Damascus throws pro-government forces into fray against Ankara
By Abdulmonam Eassa
A Turkish military truck carries a tank as it is dispatched to the border in Hatay, near the Turkey-Syria border, on January 31, 2018. (OZAN KOSE/AFP)
February 4, 2018, 4:16 pm
Turkey warns US troops may be fired on as Syria offensive widens
Deputy Prime Minister Bozdag says American troops wearing uniforms of Washington-allied, Ankara-opposed Kurdish militias could be accidentally targeted
By AFP
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a four-finger (rabia) sign during a speech in Istanbul, December 15, 2017. (Ozan Kose/AFP)
January 30, 2018, 2:24 pm
Turkey detains leadership of top medical group over Syria criticism
Erdogan lashes doctors’ association as ‘a gang of unthinking slaves’ and ‘servants of imperialism’
By Raziye AKKOC
A Turkish soldier stands on a tank near the Syrian border at Hassa, in Hatay province on January 24, 2018, as part of the operation 'Olive Branch' against Kurdish fighters (AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)
January 27, 2018, 1:46 pm
Turkey says US has vowed to stop arming Syrian Kurds
Ties between the two allies have been strained by Turkey’s recent offensive against Washington-aligned militant group
By TOI staff and Agencies
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses local administrators in Ankara, Turkey, January 24, 2018. (Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Pool Photo via AP)
January 24, 2018, 5:37 pm
Turkey vows to widen offensive against Syrian Kurds
President Erdogan’s determination to eradicate Kurdish militias from border area brings his troops closer to US forces
By Suzan Fraser and NATALIYA VASILYEVA
A convoy of Turkish Army armored personnel carriers led by a tank are driven toward the border with Syria, in the outskirts of Hassa, Turkey, Tuesday, January 23, 2018. (Ibrahim Mase/DHA-Depo Photos via AP)
January 24, 2018, 8:24 am
Turkey urged to show restraint in assault on Syrian Kurds
Dozens said killed in campaign in northern Syrian region of Afrin, where Ankara seeks to weaken Kurdish militias
By Sarah El Deeb and PHILIP ISSA
US forces, accompanied by Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters, drive their armored vehicles near the northern Syrian village of Darbasiyah, on the border with Turkey on April 28, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN)
January 18, 2018, 4:47 am
US insists it’s not forming new ‘army’ in Syria
Both Ankara and the main Syrian opposition forces condemn the US-led coalition’s plan to create a 30,000-strong border force
By AFP
A Turkish army tank and an armored vehicle are stationed near the border with Syria, in Karkamis, Turkey, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. (IHA via AP)
July 31, 2017, 2:53 pm
Turkey detains soldiers filmed beating Syrians on border
Servicemen seen attacking four men seeking to cross illegally into Turkish territory
By AFP
German former rapper Deso ​​Dogg, aka Abu Talha al-Almani, in Syria. (screen capture: Youtube/josef islam. com)
May 2, 2017, 11:05 pm
FBI translator married IS fighter she spied on
Daniela Greene traveled to Syria to be with Denis Cuspert; later escaped after regretting romance
By AFP
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian opposition fighters head to a bus with their families as they leave the last rebel-held neighborhood of al-Waer, in Homs province, Syria, Monday, April 24, 2017. (SANA via AP)
April 24, 2017, 4:24 pm
Al-Qaeda leader tells fighters to prepare for long Syria war
Syrian branch of terror group under increasing pressure due to surge in airstrikes by US-led coalition
By AP
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