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 ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed on Thursday that Moscow and Damascus were not behind an air strike in northern Syria that killed four Turkish soldiers. “Neither Russia nor Syria, its air force, had anything to do with this,” Lavrov told a news conference in the southern Turkish resort of ...