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Turkey Wants World’s Governments to Remove Syria’s HTS from Terrorist Lists

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday called on governments to revoke the terrorist designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Syrian opposition group that toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad last week. “I think it is time for the international community, including the United Nations, to remove their names from the list,” Fidan said in a […]

Fall of Assad an ‘Unfriendly Takeover’ by Turkey

President-elect Donald Trump explained The fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime is the culmination of years of intervention by Turkey, which despises President Bashar Assad as a “butcher” and which the people “can't ignore,” but the Islamicist Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has He declared that he was the biggest winner of the war. on monday. […]

Antony Blinken’s Turkey Trip Fails to Stop Onslaught Against U.S.-Allied Kurds in Syria

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia allied with the United States, confirmed on Monday that a brief ceasefire with Turkish Islamist proxies in the country had collapsed due to Turkey's intransigence. The ongoing fighting between the SDF and the Syrian National Army (SNA), an Islamist coalition that evolved from the Free Syrian Army […]

Turkey Claims Thousands of Syrian Refugees Have Returned Home

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Erikaya claimed on Sunday that 7,621 Syrian refugees “voluntarily returned” from Turkey between December 9 and 13. At least three million Syrians have sought refuge in Turkey since the Syrian civil war began in 2011. Yelikaya claimed Last week, the number of Syrians returning from Turkey jumped from 150 percent to […]

Turkey Urges Victorious Syrian Jihadis to Turn Against Kurds

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday urged the al-Qaeda-linked jihadist rebels who overthrew Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to consider cooperating with Turkish forces against the Kurds. Fidan: “Rebels must unite now” said — which meant all “rebels” except the Kurds. “We hope that they can come together and start working in an orderly manner […]