Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that Turkey’s military operation in Syria was against “terror” groups only, rowing back on his previous comments saying it was targeting President Bashar al-Assad. “The operation’s target is not against a country or a person but against terrorist organisations only. No one should ...
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura reiterated on Thursday his calls for al-Nusra Front group’s militants to leave eastern Aleppo. On October 6, de Mistura proposed to accompany al-Nusra Front militants if they decided to leave Aleppo with arms and to head for the city of Idlib or ...