Tag: Turkey

Syrian National Reconciliation Minister Ali Heidar strongly criticized Turkish army's invasion of his country's territory and underlined that the top political and military brass in Damascus are to make a decision about confronting the Turkish aggression.

Vedomosti: Washington looking to drive wedge between Moscow and Tehran Russia and Iran have a common objective in Syria, and all assertions about the possibility...

The Real Reason Behind Turkish Cooperation With Russia in Syria Sputnik: Commenting on the recent Russian-Turkish joint operation against the terrorist group Daesh near the...

Moscow and Ankara are carrying out their first joint military operation against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in the Syrian province of Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced.

The Turkish parliament has passed in a first reading a controversial bill bolstering the powers of the president.

  Israel and Turkey are reportedly drafting a “roadmap” to promote their cooperation in different areas, months after the two sides reached an agreement to...

Jim W. Dean - VT has been watching the shifting Turkish foreign policy claims with a skeptical eye based on Erdogan's history. As we have often said, "watch what he does, not so much what he says".

Erdogan failed to secure his domestic front before getting sucked into the Syrian civil war.

Jim W. Dean - I continue to be validated in my lonely position that the state-sponsored terrorism engine is the real engine that has brought the scourge to its current level. We can compare and contrast the "terrorism light" that we experienced for several decades with today's on steroids terror.

Jim W. Dean - I suspect more big terror attacks as an intimidation tactic of what could continue to happen if certain parties see the Syrian situation go against their desired outcome. They will not take it lying down.

  Yemeni sources say a Turkish plane transporting scores of Daesh Takfiri terrorists has landed in the Aden International Airport in southern Yemen. Yemen’s al-Masirah news...

Jim W. Dean - This is another surprise turn of the worm for Turkey, dovetailing into its signing on with the Russian and Iranian tripartite Syria agreement, where one of its planks was to respect the sovereignty of Syria.

Jim W. Dean - We finally had some response from the US today after the new Iran, Russian, Turkey triparte declaration to move forward on a Syrian resolution themselves.

Jim W. Dean - As VT predicted, the freeing of Aleppo was quickly followed by a call to renew negotiations, as this move would kill the expected smear claims that Damascus was seeking a military solution.

Recent findings have revealed that the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in Iraq is manufacturing weapons on an industrial scale, with products largely purchased in...

Jim W. Dean - I can't help but believe that at some point NATO is not going to remain immune to its member states so fragrantly aiding and abetting terrorism on wholesale level.

Will Trump, unlike Obama, use his military power directly and more effectively, or will he focus on solving it with more peaceful, more compromising and allied strategies?

When oil began flowing out of Iraq after the 2003 American invasion, more than half went through Turkey.

An Iranian-made drone was involved in the killing of four Turkish soldiers in an air attack on November 24, not a Syrian warplane, said a senior Turkish official on Wednesday.

Authorities in Ghana busted a fake U.S. embassy in the capital Accra run by a criminal network that for a decade issued illegally obtained authentic visas, the U.S. State Department said.

Ankara is in talks with Russia to keep a way open for its affiliated forces to stay in regions North-East of Aleppo province, while it has suspended operations in the strategic al-Bab region. dissident sources said.

Gordon Duff - Behind the scenes, the NeoCon cabal that many believe staged 9/11 and that certainly fabricated the casus belli to justify what was intended to be an American conquest of Central Asia, has now emerged as the real power behind Trump.

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at a symposium in Istanbul, stated that the Turkish army launched a military operation in Syria to end...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Turkish Army entered Syria to end the rule of President Bashar Assad, whom he accused of terrorism and causing the deaths of thousands.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said Sunday that conflicts in Syria and Iraq will be solved without the inclusion of other big powers if Turkey and Iran could move together.

Gordon Duff - Will Putin allow Netanyahu to play his game, which includes betrayal of Russia? How far will Netanyahu get before Russia asserts herself militarily?

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created after World War Two to unite democratic states or Western Europe and North America against Soviet expansionism.

The Shiite-led Hashd al-Shaabi militia said Thursday that its forces are 15 kilometers from Tal Afar, a Turkmen town that Turkey has warned the militia to stay clear of.

Iraq is going to invade and destroy Saudi Arabia.

Over 60 civilians have been killed and at least 200 injured during three days of US-led coalition airstrikes on residential areas in Mosul, the Russian military reported.

The Syrian government troops and Kurdish fighters have formed a coalition to stand against Turkish army's incursion into Northern Syria, a retired Syrian army general said.

Jim W. Dean - We are watching the fruits of regime change and destabilization in Iraq getting ready to be picked -- now that this weak and corrupt government can no longer hold a fractious state together without outside support.

Jim W. Dean - The big news here is Putin's claim that Russia and Turkey are going to work closely together on the military and Intel aspects of the Syria war, with the initial focus being getting the militants out of Aleppo.

Gordon Duff - There is one inexorable truth about Trump and this is his relationship with Roy Cohn. However, there is more to it than the story of a spoiled rich boy; everything about Trump, aside from his inherited cash is really about Roy Cohn.

Iraq says Turkish forces will not be allowed to participate in military operations aimed at liberating Mosul, an Iraqi city that Daesh has declared as its so-called headquarters.

Jim W. Dean - Can Dündar is lucky that the shooter was a poor shot and "one" person in the crowd restrained him when he missed with the first two shots, the classic mistake of a nervous shooter jerking the trigger hard, which pulls the shots off to the side.

The Pentagon admitted last week that it has stationed its forces in Northern Syria but didn’t reveal any details

... from Pravda, interview with Viktor Sergeyev, Director of the Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies (IIS), MGIMO University

“There is a need to allow for the Palestinian people to establish an independent Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital, based on the two-state solution,” he told the UN General Assembly

Jim W. Dean - We see Turkey taking advantage of the ceasefire chaos in Syria to concentrate on its wish list, pushing the Kurds away from the border areas and establishing a VERY deep buffer zone, and a defacto occupation of Syrian territory.