Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed not to allow any ISIL militants to escape northern Syria, in an editorial published Tuesday, following fears from Western nations over its offensive in the region. “We will ensure that no ISIS fighters leave northeastern Syria,” Erdogan wrote in the Wall Street Journal, using ...
Human Rights Watch warned European countries on Tuesday against transferring foreign ISIL suspects from prisons in war-torn northeastern Syria to Iraq. The New York-based watchdog expressed concern that some countries with significant contingents of prisoners in Syria were seeking to move them across the border. A Turkish invasion of areas ...
