Turkey reports on Afrin operation

He authored a book in the Dutch language about the cognitive war against Israel and now lives in Gush Etzion.

Separately, the Syrian Defence Ministry said their air force had destroyed a flurry of Israeli missiles targeting a military position in the countryside of the capital Damascus early Wednesday.

The president, however, did not specify who was responsible for the attack. A number of US military advisers were present alongside local allied forces, and the Americans led a punishing response that other officials said killed about 100 of the assailants.

Reportedly, the parties will discuss the Operation Olive Branch in Syria’s Afrin during the meeting.

Another setback was a temporary ban on Turkish aerial actions in northern Syria imposed by Russian Federation this weekend. Indeed, it is said Moscow is wary of Turkey’s possible links with al-Qaeda-affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels, who claimed the downing of a Russian Su-25 fighter over Idlib province on February 3.

The neighborhood was one of several so-called de-escalation zones agreed a year ago by Russia, Turkey and Iran.

Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have issued detention warrants against the co-leader of the country’s pro-Kurdish party and 16 other activists for speaking out against Turkey’s military offensive in northern Syria.

The Turkish army confirmed the crash but did not comment on a cause.

Elsewhere in Syria, a wave of Israeli airstrikes on Iranian targets on Saturday marked a dramatic cross-border escalation to the civil war.

More than 20 Turkish soldiers and 150 YPG fighters have been killed since the military offensive began, he said.

Sunday’s announcement brings to 31 the number of Turkish soldiers killed since the operation against the Syrian Kurdish militia started on January 20 with Ankara’s cross-border incursion into the enclave of Afrin.

Members of Erdogan’s main ally in Syria could be seen standing with their boots on the naked body while declaring she was a “beautiful woman”.

The Kremlin said in a statement that Putin and Macron underlined during their call the need for developing closer cooperation on Syria.

Russian Federation has always said it only targets terrorist in the region. US -backed Kurdish-led forces have been competing for control of Deir el-Zour with Russian-backed Syrian troops that are reinforced by Iranian-supported militias.

The United States demanded an immediate end to the airstrikes, with the State Department saying in Washington: “These attacks must end now”.

Afrin has been a major hideout for the PYD/PKK since July 2012 when the Assad regime in Syria left the city to the terror group without a fight. It had been under the occupation of ISIL before being taken by US -backed YPG militia forces in 2017.

A United Nations -mandated investigation team is probing reports that bombs allegedly containing weaponized chlorine were used on two recent occasions in Syria. But Trump administration critics disagreed.