Turkish forces in northern Syria have detained a sister of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the ISIL Takfiri group who was allegedly killed in a US raid, a senior Turkish official said Tuesday. “Turkey has captured Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s sister” in a raid near the town of Azaz, the ...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday hailed as a “landmark” the first meeting of a committee comprising Syrian government and opposition negotiators, tasked with amending the war-torn country’s constitution. On Wednesday, the two sides sat face-to-face in Geneva for the launch of the constitutional review committee’s work. “Yesterday’s first ...
