President Erdoğan announces start of operation, as explosions reported near borderThe Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has said that a long-planned Turkish military operation in northeast Syria has begun, with Kurdish forces currently in control of the area reporting airstrikes and “huge panic”.The move was triggered by Donald Trump’s announcement at the weekend that US troops would withdraw from the area, where thousands of captured Isis fighters and their families are held by Kurdish forces, and threatens to open a bloody new front in the Syrian war. Continue reading…
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