Turkey said Kurdish militants east of the Euphrates in Syria “will be buried in their ditches when the time comes”, after President Donald Trump began what will be a total withdrawal of US troops from Syria. “Now we have Manbij and the east of the Euphrates in front of us. ...
Leon Panetta, who served as US President Barack Obama’s secretary of defense and director of the CIA, said the US “cannot ignore” developments along Lebanon’s southern border. In an interview with Army Radio on Thursday, he said the US must continue to heed developments there. “When I was defense minister, ...