Tag: YPG

TURKEY PREPARES FOR A POMPEO PROBLEM

Sourced: The National Interest By Gonul Tol The tension between Turkey and the United States appeared to have diminished after the outgoing Secretary Rex Tillerson’s visit to Turkey in February. The two countries had been at loggerheads over a number of issues, particularly U.S. support for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, seen as terrorists by… Continue reading TURKEY PREPARES FOR A POMPEO PROBLEM

TURKEY LAUNCHES “OLIVE BRANCH OPERATION” AGAINST “PKK THREAT IN SYRIA”

Sourced : Hurriyet Daily News The Turkish military has launched a crossborder land operation into the Syrian province of Afrin to fight the Syrian Kurdish militia the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a group Ankara has deemed a “terror group” for its links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The operation, which has been dubbed… Continue reading TURKEY LAUNCHES “OLIVE BRANCH OPERATION” AGAINST “PKK THREAT IN SYRIA”

U.S MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUDGET REQUEST INCLUDES ANTI-TANK ROCKETS FOS SYRIANS FIGHTING ISIS

Sourced : Military Times By: Shawn Snow The Defense Department’s fiscal 2018 budget request continues the program of training and equipping vetted Syrian partners in the fight against ISIS, and the proposal includes funds for U.S. AT-4 anti-tank rockets or Russian SPG-9 recoilless rifles, and several thousand RPG-7s, a move likely to irk U.S. NATO… Continue reading U.S MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUDGET REQUEST INCLUDES ANTI-TANK ROCKETS FOS SYRIANS FIGHTING ISIS

US DISPATCHES 100 TRUCKS PACKED WITH MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO YPG

Sourced : Hurriyet Daily News The U.S. dispatched around new 100 trucks consisting of military equipment to the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria on May 15 and May 20, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. The trucks were reported in the city of al-Hasakah, located in northeast Syria, before heading to Raqqa’s northern rural… Continue reading US DISPATCHES 100 TRUCKS PACKED WITH MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO YPG

SYRIAN KURDS SAY RUSSIA TO BUILD MILITARY BASE IN AFRIN

Sourced: Al Jazeera Russia is setting up a military base in northwestern Syria in agreement with the Syrian-Kurdish YPG armed group that controls the area and will train fighters, a YPG spokesman said on Monday. The agreement with Russia was concluded on Sunday and Russian troops have already arrived at the village of Kafr Jina,… Continue reading SYRIAN KURDS SAY RUSSIA TO BUILD MILITARY BASE IN AFRIN

US ARMING YPG IN SYRIA “INTOLERABLE” FOR TURKEY

epa04586503 Members of the Syrian Kurdish People's Defence Units (YPG) celebrate their victory in Kobane, Syria, 26 January 2015. According to reports Kurdish fighters claim to have pushed militants from the group calling themselves Islamic State (IS) out of the whole of Kobane following four months of fighting, supported by airstrikes carried out by an international anti-IS coalition, though a number of the town's surrounding villages, close to the Syrian-Turkish border, remain in the hands of IS. EPA/STR

Sourced : Anadolou Agency By Mustafa Keles, Betul Yuruk & Burcu Arik Ankara considers the U.S. arming the YPG “intolerable” because the terror group poses a great threat to Turkey, that country’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday. “It is even so hard to accept a terror supporter country as an ally,” Cavusoglu said at… Continue reading US ARMING YPG IN SYRIA “INTOLERABLE” FOR TURKEY

TURKEY SENDS 1,000 SPECIAL FORCES ON SENSITIVE MISSION TO SECURE “SECURITY ZONE” ACROSS BORDER

Sourced : The Idependent By : Kim Sengupta While international focus is on the devastating bombing going on in Aleppo, another offensive is taking place, much of it in the shadows, which could be a game-changer in Syria’s bloody civil war. The Turkish military, with armour, air-power and troops on the ground – a thousand… Continue reading TURKEY SENDS 1,000 SPECIAL FORCES ON SENSITIVE MISSION TO SECURE “SECURITY ZONE” ACROSS BORDER

THE U.S.’S SYRIA POLICY RESTS ON A TREACHEROUS FAULT LINE

Sourced : The Washington Post By David Ignatius The U.S. military campaign to seize the Islamic State’s capital, Raqqa, may be delayed because of a nasty fight between Turkey and the Syrian Kurdish militia known as the YPG. Sadly, it’s a classic Middle East moment, when regional players’ mistrust of each other overwhelms their common… Continue reading THE U.S.’S SYRIA POLICY RESTS ON A TREACHEROUS FAULT LINE

THE TURKISH MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA

It has been a week since the Turkish Armed Forces and thousands of troops of the allied factions of the rebel FSA crossed the Syrian borders close to the city of Jarablus. Although the initial announcements of the Turkish Government noticed that the target of the military intervention of the 24th of August in Syria… Continue reading THE TURKISH MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA

SYRIA CEASE-FIRE BRINGS TURKEY CLOSER TO WAR

Turkish army tanks take up position on the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province September 29, 2014. Turkish tanks and armoured vehicles took up positions on hills overlooking the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani on Monday as shelling by Islamic State insurgents intensified and stray fire hit Turkish soil, a Reuters correspondent said. At least 30 tanks and armoured vehicles, some with their guns pointed towards Syrian territory, were positioned near a Turkish military base just northwest of Kobani. Plumes of smoke rose up as shells hit the eastern and western sides of Kobani and sporadic bursts of machinegun fire rang out. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

By Roy Gutman Foreign Policy Secretary of State John Kerry’s agreement with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, billed as an opening to the cessation of hostilities in Syria, turned out to be the starting shot for more intensive Russian bombing of cities and towns, hospitals, and schools in the north of the country. And Russia’s… Continue reading SYRIA CEASE-FIRE BRINGS TURKEY CLOSER TO WAR