Mexican security forces on Sunday killed seven more members of a presumed cartel assault force that rolled into a town near the Texas border and staged an hour-long attack, officials said, bringing the death toll to at least 21. CBC | World News
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Car bomb in Syrian town along border with Turkey kills 13
A car bomb exploded in a northern Syrian town along the border with Turkey on Saturday killing 13 people, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said. CBC | World News
Read More »Turkey wants Syrian forces to leave border areas, aide says
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants Syrian government forces to move out of areas near the Turkish border so it can resettle up to two million refugees there, his spokesperson told The Associated Press on Saturday, adding that Erdogan will raise the issue in talks next week with Syria’s ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin. CBC | World News
Read More »Kurdish fighters evacuate besieged Syrian border town
Kurdish fighters and civilians have evacuated a besieged Syrian town on Sunday, the first pullback under the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal, opening the way to a broader withdrawal of the Kurdish-led forces from regions along the Turkish border. CBC | World News
Read More »Turkish, Kurdish forces battle for border town in Syria
Turkish artillery are pounding suspected Syrian Kurdish positions near a town in northeast Syria as Turkey’s military incursion enters its seventh day. CBC | World News
Read More »Turkey-backed Syrian rebels seize border town’s centre
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seized control of Ras al-Ayn’s town centre in northeast Syria on Saturday, a senior Turkish security official said as Turkey’s offensive against a Kurdish militia in the region entered its fourth day. CBC | World News
Read More »Fellow Republicans condemn Trump on Syrian-Turkish border troop withdrawal
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday cast his decision to abandon U.S-allied Kurdish-led fighters in Syria as fulfilling a campaign promise to withdraw from “endless war” in the Middle East, even as Republican critics said he was sacrificing a U.S. ally and undermining American credibility. CBC | World News
Read More »Alleged leader of human-smuggling ring at Canada-U.S. border held in U.S. pending trial
Beginning as early as 2013 and until August 2018, an organization led by Godofredo Rivas-Melendez, 60, charged thousands of dollars to smuggle people into Vermont and New York from Canada, a U.S. federal court indictment said. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. troops start pullout from along Turkey’s border in Syria
U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces in Syria say American troops have begun withdrawing from areas along Turkey’s border. CBC | World News
Read More »Pound v US dollar: GBP exchange rate FLAT amid Brexit Irish border agreement
A CAUTIOUS reaction from the currency market to news of an agreement on the Irish border after Brexit is keeping the pound stuck at opening levels versus the US dollar so far today. Daily Express :: Finance Feed
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