The Turkish army is expanding its deployment in northwest Syria with the goal of reining in Russian strikes in the Idlib border province, under a deal to reduce clashes. The Turkish army expanded its troop [ More … ]
Syria peace talks in Kazakhstan have closed on Wednesday without any substantive negotiations taking place after regime’s delegation refused to discuss a constitutional commission and the rebels boycotted the talks due to ceasefire breaches. Russia said it [ More … ]
Assad regime accused Turkey of breaking its commitments to peace settlement as Ankara-backed rebel groups boycotted the third round of meetings in Astana, while Russia said it was surprised by the incident. Russia said it has [ More … ]
Syrian rebels representatives said they will not attend the third round of Syria settlement talks in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, due to ceasefire violations and Russia’s failure to preserve its commitments. Russia said it has a new plan [ More … ]
Participants arrived in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on Monday for the third round of Syria settlement talks, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said, while the rebels asked first to delay the meeting then said they won’t [ More … ]
BY: ÇETİNER ÇETİN* It has been two years since Russian President Vladimir Putin deployed air forces to Syria to protect the remaining state of Bashar Assad from rebels. More importantly, however, it has been three [ More … ]
But, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu stresses, Turkey will not accept terrorist PYD/YPG being included in peace talks Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Saturday that the United States would be invited to the Jan. 23 Syrian peace [ More … ]
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