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TURKEY has announced it is attacking Syria as towns on the Turkish border are hit. Turkey is a hugely popular holiday destination for Britons but how safe is Turkey now? This is the latest Foreign Office travel advice. Daily Express :: Travel Feed
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Who are the key players in Turkey’s Syria offensive, and what’s at stake?
Turkish forces have begun a military operation in northeast Syria, just days after U.S. troops began vacating the area. Who are the key players in the offensive and what’s at stake? CBC | World News
Read More »‘A bloody conflict’: Trump’s actions in Syria will have long-term consequences
The fallout from President Donald Trump’s decision to remove U.S. troops from northeastern Syria has been swift and deadly, as Turkey has begun its assault on the region and America’s now-former allies, the Syrian Kurds, dig in for what they say will be a bloody conflict on two fronts. CBC | World News
Read More »‘It’s a strategic win’: Why Russia is settling in for the long haul in Syria
The Russian military recently took foreign media, including CBC, on a tour of its operations in Syria. The trip showed that despite fierce criticism from human rights groups and ambivalence back home, Russia is planning for a lengthy stay, Chris Brown writes. CBC | World News
Read More »Kurds mobilize in Syria as Turkey poised for imminent attack
The Kurdish-led civilian administration in northeastern Syria issued a “general mobilization” call along the Syrian border with Turkey on Wednesday as Ankara poised for an imminent invasion of the area in the latest major escalation in the war-ravaged country. CBC | World News
Read More »UN calls for protecting civilians in northeast Syria
Civilians must be spared in any Turkish military operation in northeast Syria, where the United Nations hopes that displacement and atrocities can be prevented, a senior UN aid official said on Monday. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. withdraws troops from northeast Syria ahead of Turkish offensive
The United States said it was pulling troops from northeast Syria, in a major shift which clears the way for a Turkish military offensive against Kurdish-led forces and hands Turkey responsibility for thousands of Islamic State captives. 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 »Nearly 1 in 4 civilians killed in Syria is a child, Lancet study says
Evidence that aerial bombing has killed more civilians — one quarter of them children — than opposition fighters in Syria has been published in one of the world’s best known medical journals. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel ‘target’ Syria military with MISSILE ATTACK as Middle East tensions rise
ISRAEL has launched three missiles at a Syrian military facility, Damascus’ state media has claimed as tensions in the Middle East continue to rise. Daily Express :: News Feed
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