Around 20,000 members of opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Turkish troops will participate in a new military operation in the northwestern Syrian Afrin region, which is under control of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), Turkish Sabah newspaper reported on Sunday. The offensive will be launched from the ...
US-backed fighters have launched a renewed attack on ISIL extremists inside their Syrian bastion Raqqa, seeking to retake a key eastern neighborhood, a monitor said on Saturday. “The Syrian Democratic Forces started a counter-offensive on Friday night to retake Al-Senaa,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for ...