Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara plans to launch an operation against US-backed Kurdish militants in the northern Syrian city of Manbij as Turkish warplanes launch airstrikes on positions of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia in Syria. Erdogan made the announcement in a televised speech in the ...
Turkish Defense Minister said on Friday that a planned military incursion in the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin should be carried out with no delay, noting that the operation in the area had in fact “de facto” started with cross-border shelling. Nurettin Canikli said Turkey will launch a military operation ...