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‘No Difference’ Between Terrorists and US/Turkish ‘Invasion’ in Syria – Assad

There is no difference between terrorist action in Syria and the military interventions of the United States and Turkey there, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Sputnik. DAMASCUS (Sputnik) — The US-led co...

Liberation of Aleppo Major Defeat to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Israel & US

Commenting on the success of the Syrian army and complete liberation of Syria's second-largest city, Aleppo, Kurdish political official Rezan Hiddo explained to Sputnik why it came as a serious defeat to Saudi ...

Syrian Army Discovers Turkish Manual Instructing Terrorists how to Use Nukes

In the course of a recent operation to liberate a terrorist-held enclave in northern Latakia, Syrian Army troops discovered a 'manual for terrorists'. Printed in Turkey, the book teaches jihadis "the proper con...

How Kurdish Problem is Bringing Ankara, Damascus Closer

Turkey has agreed that Bashar Assad will remain Syria’s president. In addition, Ankara is ready for direct talks with Damascus. The statement came amid fierce clashes between the Syrian Army and US-backed Kurdi...

Turkish tanks cross Syrian border in military op to retake city of Jarablus from ISIS

Turkey’s ground incursion into Syria is meant to protect the country from Islamic State and Kurds, the Turkish president said as tanks began rolling across the border. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkASJk8I-...

Turkish Prime Minister Admits Possibility of Use of Incirlik Base by Russia

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Saturday that Russia could possibly use country's southern Incirlik Air Base if it becomes necessary. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — At the same time Yildirim added that the...

Iran, Turkey Might Set Up a Platform on the Settlement of the Syrian Conflict

Amid the visit by Iran’s Foreign Minister to the Turkish capital Ankara, where he is set to meet an array of senior Turkish officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish political analyst Bayram ...

EU & US Desperately Trying to Prevent Erdogan From Shifting Toward Russia

With the Turkish government agitated over apparent Western collusion in the July 15 coup attempt, Washington and Brussels are looking on in horror at the possible rapprochement between Moscow and Ankara. Accord...

Turkey to resume airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, asks Russia to fight ‘common enemy’

Turkey will resume airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, and has asked Russia to carry out joint operations against its “common enemy.” Ankara halted strikes after the downing of a Russian plane by ...

Turkey May Soon Join BRICS Powers & Leave NATO

US analysts claim that Erdogan’s highly successful meeting with Putin in St. Petersburg could be the beginning of Turkey leaving NATO to join the BRICS. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Erdogan says talks with ‘friend’ Putin to start new page in Russia-Turkey relations

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the upcoming talks with his “friend” Vladimir Putin in Moscow will “open a new page” in relations between Turkey and Russia. “This will be a historic vi...

Russian Deal With Turkey Could Spell Game Over for US and Moderate Rebels in Syria

Commenting on the results of the recent meeting on Syria in Geneva between Russia, the UN and the US and on the prospects of a possible ending of the Syrian war, Russian political expert Vyacheslav Matuzov sugg...

Saudi, Turkish commanders ordered Aleppo attacks: Syrian minister

The Syrian information minister says Turkey and Saudi Arabia are to blame for the recent spike in terrorist attacks in the country’s northwestern province of Aleppo. "Turkish and Saudi commanders have issued t...

US Opposes Placing Saudi, Turkish ‘Proxies’ on UN Terror List

The United States objects to adding Ahrar ash-Sham and Jaish al-Islam to the UN sanctions list because they operate as proxy forces inside Syria for key allies like Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, experts told ...

Turkey Becomes ‘Magnet for Thousands of Religious Fanatics and Murderers’

Ankara’s aggressive policies toward Syria have destroyed the lives of some of its own citizens, who after being indoctrinated by radicals, have decided to take up arms and join jihadists in another country, fil...

The World is ‘Turning a Blind Eye’ as Turkey Targets Kurdish Communities

Despite Ankara's ongoing crackdown on Kurds, the international community has preferred to ignore the problem, according to Kani Xulam, a Kurdish activist and director of the American Kurdish Information Network...

Car bombing rocks Turkish capital Ankara, 34 dead, 125 injured

A blast caused by a suicide car bombing hit the center of Ankara on Sunday evening. The explosion resulted in over a hundred casualties. At least 34 people were killed and 125 injured in the explosion, a...

Journalists of Turkish newspaper ‘feel like captives’ after government seizure, sales drop 99%

Sales of Zaman, the Turkish opposition newspaper that was taken over by the government last week, have reportedly nosedived from 650,000 to 6,000 a day. Journalists say they “feel like captives” at work, with p...

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