Turkey begins military operation against Assad regime

Turkish Defense Minister Şule Akar responded, vowing retaliation against any attack on Turkish forces or observation posts in Idlib under Turkey’s right to self-defense. By REUTERS, IDAN ZONSHINE MARCH 1, 2020 13:30 A Syrian government drone was downed in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, marking the beginning of a wide-scale military operation in response to last […]

Turkey should bomb Damascus

Tom Rogan  | February 21, 2020 10:45 AM Having lost two more soldiers to Syrian airstrikes on Thursday, Turkey should retaliate by striking regime targets in Damascus. While an operation against the Syrian capital would attract Bashar Assad’s fury, it would send a clear message to the dictator and his Russian allies. And from a […]

IS scored ‘opportunistic’ wins in Syria as Aleppo fell

AFP on December 24, 2016, 12:37 am Paris (AFP) – The Syrian regime’s all-out offensive to recapture Aleppo enabled the Islamic State group to regain territory elsewhere, including the historic city of Palmyra, and has dimmed prospects of defeating the jihadists, experts say. “The resources deployed (by Damascus and its allies) to retake Aleppo have allowed IS to claim a series of opportunistic victories” in Syria, said Charles Lister of the US think-tank Middle East Institute. During the assault by Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces on rebels in eastern Aleppo, IS jihadists recaptured the historic city of Palmyra on December …

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