by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 13, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut – The clashes that erupted between the Free Syrian Army’s Euphrates Shield unit and other factions in the Syrian city of al-Bab and others regions in the northeastern Aleppo countryside have come to a halt. Ankara had reportedly intervened to stop the...
by Saeed Abdelrazek | May 16, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara – Turkey officially revealed on Monday its plan to establish a military base in the Syrian city of al-Bab. Turkish deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak told Hurriyet daily on the margins of his trip to Bosnia that the chief of staff is going ahead with work to...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 11, 2017 | Features
Al-Bab, Syria- On the walls of a former ISIS jail in the city of al-Bab, Syrian detainees whiled away endless months by scrawling phrases and poems, praying for freedom or bidding farewell to loved ones. One former prisoner of the jihadists, Khalifah al-Khidr,...
by Saeed Abdelrazek | Mar 9, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara- The top generals from Turkey, US and Russia have met to discuss developments in Syria and Iraq to prevent “the risk of a conflict” during their fight against ISIS. Hulusi Akar, Turkish chief of staff; Joseph Dunford, US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff;...
by Paula Astih | Feb 25, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut- After the Turkish-backed Euphrates Shield Forces controlled al-Bab city, Syria’s Kurds began to feel that their dream of having a “federal state” has faltered although it was not completely shattered. The latest developments in the battlefield in the Syrian...
