A summit meeting between Turkey and the EU on Monday in Bulgaria, intended to defrost the relationship, threatens to miss its target. Ankara is angry because the 28 EU leaders have sharply criticized the country.
The Syrian government and insurgents in an enclave east of Damascus have agreed on the evacuation of fighters to the northwest of Syria. This reported several observers. Buses are ready to transport the estimated 1500 fighters and possibly 6000 relatives from Harasta.
More than ten years ago it was Syria, now it can become Iran. With this implicit warning, Israel admitted for the first time that it bombed a nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007.
Israeli forces destroyed a nuclear reactor in neighboring Syria in 2007. That made the army known Wednesday.
Damascus demanded the departure of Turkish soldiers from Afrin on Monday after they had conquered the largest city in the region on Syrian-Kurdish forces during the weekend.
Turkey continues military operations in Syria. That said the Turkish president Erdogan, who put the 'terrorists \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; want to expel from the areas around Manbij, Kamishli, Kobani and Ras al-Ayn. The Turkish leader did not rule out also to take action against Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq.
Three women from Antwerp were convicted in absentia on Monday for participating in the activities of a terrorist organization. The Antwerp court imposed their five years in prison and every 6,000 euros fine.
Against the 24-year-old Martijn N., who tried to travel to Syria twice, a three-year prison sentence was demanded on appeal. The Hague man intended to join a jihadist group as a fighter.
A British woman who fought with Kurdish militias died in Syria. The convoy with 26-year-old Anna Campbell from East Sussex would have been hit by a rocket, reports British media. It is known as the first time that a British woman in Syria is killed on the side of the Kurds.
Syrian rebels with the support of Turkish troops entered the city of Afrin in the northwest of Syria shortly before sunrise. They took control of parts of it after the Kurdish YPG troops had withdrawn, said a spokesman for the rebel fighters of the Free Syrian Army.
Russian voters go to the polls on Sunday to choose a president. The first polling stations have now opened their doors in the east of the country. The elite winner of the election is Vladimir Putin (65), who has been in power for eighteen years. He hardly campaigned and avoided debates.
The Turkish army denies having bombed a hospital in Afrin, the main city of the Kurdish enclave of the same name in north-western Syria. 'This operation is conducted in a way that leaves civilians and innocents out of action', the Turkish army reports on Twitter.
The United Kingdom, France and Germany have prepared new European sanctions against Iran. The measures are a response to Tehran's role in the conflict in Syria and to ballistic missile tests, according to a confidential document that Reuters news agency has recognized and has been sent to all EU Member States.
The only presidential candidate in Russia who did not campaign for the Sunday elections, Vladimir Putin, apparently wins the ballot box. He has been in power for eighteen years and does not have to worry about losing it. If it is up to the current law, the last six years will be his last term.
The Turkish forces have now eliminated more than 3,500 Kurdish fighters around Afrin in northwestern Syria. The army did not report how many fighters were killed or taken prisoner.
A theater looks for IS terrorists through a newspaper advertisement and offers them a job as an actor.
Turkey wants Germany to do more to prevent attacks on mosques in Germany. Ankara had the German ambassador to show him a protest letter, according to German media Tuesday.
Turkey and the United States are going to pilot the Kurdish Syrians of the YPG militia from Manbij. The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu said this Tuesday. According to Cavusoglu, a plan for the withdrawal of the YPG (People's Protection Units) from the Syrian location approximately 80 kilometers northeast of Aleppo is being made during the American-Turkish consultations on 19 March.
The Turkish army and allies have completely surrounded the city of Afrin in the eponymous district in northwestern Syria. The Turkish army announced that on Tuesday.
Russian military personnel say that 76 people, including 49 children, left the Syrian eastern district of Ghouta on Monday through a humanitarian corridor. According to a Russian monitoring center on the ceasefire in Syria, militants would have attacked civilians on their way to the corridor, killing five people, according to Russian news agencies.
For the first time in eight months, Syrian fighter planes have carried out air strikes in the southern province of Deraa. The attacks were just east of the provincial capital Deraa and other attacks about 60 kilometers and southwest of Damascus.
Months after the reconquest of the Iraqi city of Mosul on the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS), 11,000 inhabitants of the city are still missing. Many of them were young people arrested and detained by IS. That says army superior Bassem Ali al-Hadschar.
After a week of offensive, Turkish soldiers have reached the outskirts of the city of Afrin in the north of Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Turks are advancing on the east side of the city.
In the first two months of this year, 67 medical centers and health workers were attacked in Syria. That is as much as half of the number of attacks on medical facilities throughout 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Friday. Every attack on doctors is 'unacceptable', according to the WHO.
Turkey, according to Turkish media, has now also asked Sweden to arrest the Kurdish politician Saleh Muslim. Ankara also recently asked two other EU countries for the extradition of the former Syrian-Kurdish PYD leader.
A Syrian army colonel said that the liberation of besieged East Ghouta is imminent. He said that the enclave, which had been besieged for years, was 'warmly embraced by Syria again.' Observers who read the Internet front reported on Wednesday that the village of Hammuriyah surrendered to the on-going government forces after negotiations. On the northern side, Misraba had already been captured on Wednesday.
The American embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara opens again on Wednesday after it closed on Monday because of a 'security threat.' The embassy declared this on Tuesday.
The Russian army offered fighters in the area around East Ghouta, east of the Syrian capital Damascus, a way out. The Ministry of Defense announced that transport will be made available for the fighters and their families. They can then leave a safe route and are allowed to use personal weapons \u0026 # x27; take.
Turkey has neutralized 2777 fighters of the Kurdish YPG in the region of Afrin in northwestern Syria so far: the fighters have surrendered or are killed. That was reported by Turkish media.
The US embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara is closed on Monday because of a 'security threat.' The embassy has informed American citizens that the office is not accessible to the public and advised them not to 'stand out too much.'
