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Afrin in Idlib’s north and can disrupt the operation.
Military capabilities and cohesion
The first and most important factor that gives the Syrian army an upper hand in the northern battle is its military capabilities and unity. Over the seven years of unceasing fight in a multi-fronted war ...
Afrin against the US-backed Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which is regarded by Turkey as an affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist organization by Ankara. Damascus, in turn, has called the operation aggression.
In December 2018, Erdogan announced t ...
Afrin were among the major towns seized by Turkey. Turkey reportedly intends to give the region a demographic change characterized by expelling the Kurdish majority on its southern borders and replacing them with 1 to 2 million Syrian Arab and Turkmen refugees currently accommodated by Ankara-provid ...
Afrin seized last year by the Turkish army in Operation Olive Branch.
On the opposite side, Turkish officials try to paint the conditions appropriate for the continuation of their operation. Before a visit to Azerbaijan on Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said he does not thin ...
Afrin, which was captured last year by Turkish troops.
The strategic town of Tal Rifaat is located 20 kilometers south of Turkey's border and has been the scene of regular confrontations between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militants from the so-called People's Protection Units (YPG).
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Afrin are recruiting and transferring armed groups from Afrin to Qatar with thousands of dollars in pays to them for deployment to the war-devastated Yemen, against which Saudi Arabia and its ally the UAE in March 2015 waged a devastating war to reinstate the fugitive President Abdrabbuh Mansour Had ...
Afrin, Al-Bab, Jarabulus, and Azaz, towns with a Kurdish majority. In 2019, Ankara launched Operation Peace Spring. The US did not help Kurds counter the Turkish advancement. Now some analysts suggest that the aspirations for Ayn Issa make a sequel to those operations.
Despite all speculation ...
Afrin in 2018. It now seems to be pursuing its dream of creating a strip along its southern borders. For clarifications on the operations, we need to shed light on the course of the Turkish military operations against the Syrian Kurds.
The first operation, Euphrates Shield, took place between ...
Afrin, Al-Bab, and Jarabulus.
From October 9 to November 25, 2019, Turkey launched an offensive, codenamed Operation Peace Spring, to push back the US-backed Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from Hasakah and Raqqa border areas, taking control of more areas held by the Kurds.&nb ...
Afrin. According to the institute, Turkey expelled more than 100,000 Kurdish residents of Afrin in 2018 to settle Arabs in this area.
If Turkey succeeds in expanding and stabilizing the geographical area occupied by terrorist groups close to it under the rejuvenated crisis in Syria, it will certain ...