Syria

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that Moscow hoped Turkey would do everything to protect Russian nationals and Russia’s diplomatic facilities in Turkey amid mounting tensions over Syria, the RIA news agency reported. The comments followed the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in a strike by Syrian government…

FILE PHOTO: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a panel discussion at the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany February 15, 2020. REUTERS/Andreas GebertANKARA (Reuters) - NATO ambassadors will meet in Brussels at Turkey’s request on Friday to hold consultations about developments in Syria, the alliance said after the killing of…

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Friday that world powers must impose a no-fly zone in Syria to protect hundreds of thousands of people displaced by clashes, after the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers by Syrian air strikes in the Idlib region. Turkey will no longer stop the nearly 4…

ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe, a senior Turkish official said, as Ankara responded on Friday to the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in an air strike by Syrian government forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region. FILE PHOTO: Internally displaced Syrian is pushed…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is very concerned about a reported attack on Turkish soldiers in Syria’s Idlib region and it stands by its NATO ally Turkey, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday. “We stand by our NATO Ally Turkey and continue to call for an immediate end…

ANKARA (Reuters) - The Turkish army is retaliating with artillery fire at Syrian government targets in Syria after an airstrike killed 22 Turkish soldiers in the northwestern Idlib province, two Turkish security officials said on Friday. “All known” Syrian government targets are under fire by Turkish air and land support…

FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin attend a working lunch in Istanbul, Turkey, January 8, 2020. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERSMOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan had agreed in a phone call to intensify…

(ANKARA, Turkey) — Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday by an airstrike in northwestern Syria, according to Turkey’s Defense Ministry, following a large-scale attack by Ankara-backed opposition forces that targeted Syrian government troops. The deaths brought to 15 the number of Turkish soldiers killed in clashes this month amid a…

Am 19.02.2020 veröffentlichtThe conflict in Syria is on the verge of a dangerous escalation, according to a senior United Nations official. The comments come as Turkey threatened to launch a new military offensive. Talks between Turkey and Russia, which backs the Syrian government, failed to reach agreement on how to…

Media captionSyria War: Why is Idlib back in the news? Turkey's president has warned the Syrian government that it will "pay a very, very heavy price" for attacks on Turkish soldiers in north-west Syria. Five troops were killed in opposition-held Idlib prov…