In a joint statement Wednesday, the leaders of Iran, Russia and Turkey said Israel’s military strikes in Syria are destabilizing to the region. The statement said the three “consider Israeli military attacks in Syria as destabilizing and violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of this country and intensifying the tension in the region,” according to […]
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The State Department’s special envoy for Syria has just admitted that the US aims to defend jihadist militants in Idlib against ‘Russian aggression,’ proving once again that the swamp in Foggy Bottom is alive and well. Russia and the Syrian government “are out to get a military victory in all of Syria,” Ambassador James Jeffrey told reporters on […]
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Disturbing video has emerged of Greek coastguards beating a dinghy full of migrants and opening fire into the water off the coast of Bodrum after Turkey warned it would stop preventing migrants from crossing the Greek border. In the footage, which was distributed by Turkish authorities, one of the guards can be seen pushing the […]
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Syrian move comes amid conflicting reports over which country the downed aircraft belongs to. Antakya, Turkey – The Syrian government has closed the airspace over northwest Idlib amid conflicting reports of a plane being shot down over the region. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu agency said a Syrian “regime plane” was shot down over Idlib on Sunday, a […]
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As tensions in Idlib province reach the boiling point, Turkey has asked Russia to let it fight the Syrian government face-to-face, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed. Erdogan asked Putin “to get out of the way” and let the Turkish troops deal with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Turkish leader told his AK Party on Saturday. Erdogan was […]
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Russian state television said on Thursday Turkish military specialists in Syria’s Idlib region were using shoulder-fired missiles to try to shoot down Russian and Syrian military aircraft. The assertion, aired during a report from Idlib on the Rossiya 24 channel, came as Turkish and rebel officials said Syrian rebels, backed by the Turkish military, had […]
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Turkey will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe, a senior Turkish official said, as Ankara responded on Friday to the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in an air strike by Syrian government forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region. President Tayyip Erdogan chaired an emergency meeting on the attack in Ankara overnight, while Defence […]
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At least 29 Turkish servicemen have been killed in an airstrike in Syria’s Idlib province, while an unspecified number of soldiers were injured. Turkish officials attributed the strike to the Syrian military. “In Idlib, Turkey’s armed forces were targeted by the regime elements in an airstrike,” Hatay province Governor Rahmi Dogan told the media late on […]
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For the first time ever, Russia has joined both Iran & Turkey in the Kazakhstan capital of Nur-Sultan for the Astana Summit; All three countries have signed an agreement condemning Israeli strikes inside of Syria. For the 14th Astana Summit being held in Kazakhstan’s capital city of Nur-Sultan, Russia is joining both Iran & Turkey […]
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Iranian and Russian media reported that earlier this month, two Russian Sukhoi Su-35 warplanes were sent out from Khmeimim airbase near Latakia to prevent the Israeli Air Force from carrying out a strike against the Syrian Air Force T-4 base located in the Homs district. The Russian military aviation blog AVIA.PRO wrote the following: “Israeli […]
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