US President Donald Trump took to Twitter earlier this week to announce that Defense Secretary James Mattis would resign on 28 February 2019. Pentagon chief Jim Mattis’s departure from the White House was spurred by a phone conversation between Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised Friday to clear Syria of a US-backed Kurdish militia and ISIL militants after the US decision to pull troops out. “In the next months we will see an operational style aimed at removing YPG (Kurdish People’s Protection Units) and ISIL elements on the ground ...