Turkey and the Syrian militia groups it supports took control of Afrin in March 2018 following a military campaign against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). The militia groups ...

On Sunday, rumors began to circulate on Kurdish and Arabic media that the YPG had come to an agreement to allow the deployment of Syrian regime forces in Afrin. Afriin is located in a mountainous ...

Operation Olive Branch was launched on Jan. 20 to clear YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorist groups from Afrin in northwestern Syria amid growing threats from the region. The operation is being carried out ...

"I have no information about the current presence of the Syrian army in Afrin," he said. On February 19, Firat News Agency reported that the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) will yield the ...

Afrin was liberated from YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists in March of last year during Turkey's Operation Olive Branch. "So we supplied [since then] hot meals to a million people; we gave 5 million ...

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Turkey’s General Staff announced the launch of Operation Olive Branch against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and forces of the Democratic Union Party in Syria’s Afrin area ...

When asked if Turkiye would still intervene in Syria despite the US support for the YPG, Fidan said: “We did it in the past ...

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