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Fierce clashes erupt between Syrian army, Turkish-led forces
Syrian troops battle Turkish-backed fighters near the border town of Ras al-Ain, threatening Russia-backed ceasefire.
23 hours ago
A Turkish military truck carries tanks in Syria's Kurdish area of Sanliurfa earlier this month [File: Erdem Sahin/EPA-EFE]
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Turkish-backed rebels said there were intermittent clashes between the two militaries in recent days south of the town, which Turkey seized from Syrian Kurdish-led forces earlier this month.
Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from the border town of Sanliurfa, said thousands of people were fleeing the fighting near Ras al-Ain and Tal Tamr towns.
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters - known as the Syrian National Army (SNA) - launched an offensive and took over areas previously under control of Kurdish fighters south of Ras al-Ain, he said.
As fighting intensified, Syrian troops deployed reinforcements from Derbasiyah to Tal Tamr.
"The SNA took over western parts of the town. People have had enough each time someone controls the area and ends up being worse than the previous armed group," one Tal Tamr resident told Al Jazeera.
"I am concerned for my children, this is why I am leaving. The Syrian army is on the frontline to stop the rebels' offensive, but you never know."
Kurdish families in limbo after fleeing Turkey’s Syria offensive
On Thursday, American forces patrolled part of Syria's border with Turkey in the first such move since Washington withdrew troops from the area earlier this month, news reports said.
Five armoured vehicles bearing US flags patrolled a strip of the frontier north of the town of Qahtaniyah, an area they used to operate in before the United States announced its pullout.
Meanwhile, at least eight people were killed on Thursday when a car bomb exploded in a busy market in the northwest Syrian city of Afrin, under control of Turkey-backed rebel groups, witnesses said. The blast also wounded at least 30 people.
The Turkish military helped by its Syrian rebel allies seized Afrin, a mainly Kurdish city, from the Kurdish YPG militia in March 2018 in a major offensive. Turkish forces have since carved out a buffer zone inside northern Syria that extends along most of the countries' border.
Videos posted on social media showed extensive damage to the market area with fires burning.
Similar car blasts frequently hit crowded civilian areas in the mainly Arab-populated towns near the border with Turkey under the control of Turkish-backed forces.
Residents and rebels in the rebel-held northwest blame the YPG for the attacks. The Kurdish-led forces say they are engaged in a guerrilla campaign against Turkish forces but deny they target civilians.
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Kurd fighters complete pullout from Turkey-Syria border: Russia
Northeast fighting
The violence underscores the risk of full-scale fighting in northeast Syria resuming after Ankara struck separate deals with Washington and Moscow to push the Syrian Kurdish militia People's Protection Units (YPG) at least 30km (19 miles) south of the border.
Turkish-backed forces crossed into northeast Syria on October 9 to attack the YPG after President Donald Trump's abrupt withdrawal of US forces there days earlier, drawing international condemnation of Turkey.
Ankara views the YPG as a "terrorist" organisation because of its links to Kurdish forces in southeast Turkey. It aims to establish a "safe zone" in northern Syria cleared of the armed group.
As part of Turkey's deal with Russia, Syrian troops have with the agreement of Kurdish forces headed north to take up positions near the border, a region Damascus has not controlled since early on in the country's eight-and-a-half-year-old war.
In Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told politicians from his AK Party that Turkey has information that YPG forces have not completed their pullout despite assurances from Russia on Tuesday they had left before the deal's deadline.
Turkey rejects German security zone plan as 'unrealistic' (3:11)
"Even though the information in our hands suggests this has not succeeded in a full sense, we will give our response to them after our field assessments," Erdogan said.
"If we see that the members of the terrorist organisation have not been moved out of the 30km or if attacks continue, no matter from where, we reserve our right to carry out our own operation."
The YPG is the main component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that fought for years alongside the US military to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) in northeast Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
'One enemy'
Kurdish forces rejected a call on Wednesday from the Syrian army and police to join their ranks following Turkey's cross-border incursion.
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US House advances bill imposing sanctions on Turkey over Syria
"The general command of the armed forces is ready to welcome members of SDF units who are willing to join its ranks," said a defence ministry statement carried by state news agency SANA.
It said all Syrians, including the Kurdish minority, were confronting "one enemy".
Syria's interior ministry said it was willing to provide police services to residents of the northeast, calling on members of the Kurdish internal security services, known as Asayish, to join its ranks, SANA reported.
The SDF, the de facto army of the Kurdish administration in northeast Syria, turned down the proposal.
"A unity of ranks must proceed from a political settlement that recognises and preserves the SDF's special status and structure," it said.
Joint patrols
Joint Russian-Turkish patrols were set to begin on Tuesday 10km (6 miles) inside Syria, but Erdogan said they would now launch on Friday and at a depth of just 7km (4 miles), after a Russian delegation held three days of talks in Ankara seeking cooperation.
"Getting the United States out of Syria was the one big interest Turkey, Russia, and Iran had in common," said Nicholas Danforth, a senior visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
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Turkish minister: Kurdish YPG still near border as deadline looms
"But now Russia's long-standing support for restoring the Syrian regime's sovereignty will come into direct conflict with Turkey's desire to protect its interests and territory in northern Syria," he said.
Russia has been Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's most powerful international backer, while Turkey has supported rebels who fought for years to overthrow him.
Some 300,000 people have been displaced and 120 civilians killed since Turkey's incursion, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
In Geneva, al-Assad's government condemned what it called the occupation of its land while the Syrian opposition demanded justice at the opening of a UN-backed panel meant to usher in reconciliation, political reform, and free-and-fair elections as a basis for lasting peace.
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Turkey, Syria and the war that just gets tougher to report
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...rian-army-turkish-forces-191031054612060.html
Syrian troops battle Turkish-backed fighters near the border town of Ras al-Ain, threatening Russia-backed ceasefire.
23 hours ago
A Turkish military truck carries tanks in Syria's Kurdish area of Sanliurfa earlier this month [File: Erdem Sahin/EPA-EFE]
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Turkish-backed rebels said there were intermittent clashes between the two militaries in recent days south of the town, which Turkey seized from Syrian Kurdish-led forces earlier this month.
Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from the border town of Sanliurfa, said thousands of people were fleeing the fighting near Ras al-Ain and Tal Tamr towns.
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters - known as the Syrian National Army (SNA) - launched an offensive and took over areas previously under control of Kurdish fighters south of Ras al-Ain, he said.
As fighting intensified, Syrian troops deployed reinforcements from Derbasiyah to Tal Tamr.
"The SNA took over western parts of the town. People have had enough each time someone controls the area and ends up being worse than the previous armed group," one Tal Tamr resident told Al Jazeera.
"I am concerned for my children, this is why I am leaving. The Syrian army is on the frontline to stop the rebels' offensive, but you never know."
Kurdish families in limbo after fleeing Turkey’s Syria offensive
On Thursday, American forces patrolled part of Syria's border with Turkey in the first such move since Washington withdrew troops from the area earlier this month, news reports said.
Five armoured vehicles bearing US flags patrolled a strip of the frontier north of the town of Qahtaniyah, an area they used to operate in before the United States announced its pullout.
Meanwhile, at least eight people were killed on Thursday when a car bomb exploded in a busy market in the northwest Syrian city of Afrin, under control of Turkey-backed rebel groups, witnesses said. The blast also wounded at least 30 people.
The Turkish military helped by its Syrian rebel allies seized Afrin, a mainly Kurdish city, from the Kurdish YPG militia in March 2018 in a major offensive. Turkish forces have since carved out a buffer zone inside northern Syria that extends along most of the countries' border.
Videos posted on social media showed extensive damage to the market area with fires burning.
Similar car blasts frequently hit crowded civilian areas in the mainly Arab-populated towns near the border with Turkey under the control of Turkish-backed forces.
Residents and rebels in the rebel-held northwest blame the YPG for the attacks. The Kurdish-led forces say they are engaged in a guerrilla campaign against Turkish forces but deny they target civilians.
READ MORE
Kurd fighters complete pullout from Turkey-Syria border: Russia
Northeast fighting
The violence underscores the risk of full-scale fighting in northeast Syria resuming after Ankara struck separate deals with Washington and Moscow to push the Syrian Kurdish militia People's Protection Units (YPG) at least 30km (19 miles) south of the border.
Turkish-backed forces crossed into northeast Syria on October 9 to attack the YPG after President Donald Trump's abrupt withdrawal of US forces there days earlier, drawing international condemnation of Turkey.
Ankara views the YPG as a "terrorist" organisation because of its links to Kurdish forces in southeast Turkey. It aims to establish a "safe zone" in northern Syria cleared of the armed group.
As part of Turkey's deal with Russia, Syrian troops have with the agreement of Kurdish forces headed north to take up positions near the border, a region Damascus has not controlled since early on in the country's eight-and-a-half-year-old war.
In Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told politicians from his AK Party that Turkey has information that YPG forces have not completed their pullout despite assurances from Russia on Tuesday they had left before the deal's deadline.
Turkey rejects German security zone plan as 'unrealistic' (3:11)
"Even though the information in our hands suggests this has not succeeded in a full sense, we will give our response to them after our field assessments," Erdogan said.
"If we see that the members of the terrorist organisation have not been moved out of the 30km or if attacks continue, no matter from where, we reserve our right to carry out our own operation."
The YPG is the main component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that fought for years alongside the US military to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) in northeast Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
'One enemy'
Kurdish forces rejected a call on Wednesday from the Syrian army and police to join their ranks following Turkey's cross-border incursion.
READ MORE
US House advances bill imposing sanctions on Turkey over Syria
"The general command of the armed forces is ready to welcome members of SDF units who are willing to join its ranks," said a defence ministry statement carried by state news agency SANA.
It said all Syrians, including the Kurdish minority, were confronting "one enemy".
Syria's interior ministry said it was willing to provide police services to residents of the northeast, calling on members of the Kurdish internal security services, known as Asayish, to join its ranks, SANA reported.
The SDF, the de facto army of the Kurdish administration in northeast Syria, turned down the proposal.
"A unity of ranks must proceed from a political settlement that recognises and preserves the SDF's special status and structure," it said.
Joint patrols
Joint Russian-Turkish patrols were set to begin on Tuesday 10km (6 miles) inside Syria, but Erdogan said they would now launch on Friday and at a depth of just 7km (4 miles), after a Russian delegation held three days of talks in Ankara seeking cooperation.
"Getting the United States out of Syria was the one big interest Turkey, Russia, and Iran had in common," said Nicholas Danforth, a senior visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
READ MORE
Turkish minister: Kurdish YPG still near border as deadline looms
"But now Russia's long-standing support for restoring the Syrian regime's sovereignty will come into direct conflict with Turkey's desire to protect its interests and territory in northern Syria," he said.
Russia has been Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's most powerful international backer, while Turkey has supported rebels who fought for years to overthrow him.
Some 300,000 people have been displaced and 120 civilians killed since Turkey's incursion, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
In Geneva, al-Assad's government condemned what it called the occupation of its land while the Syrian opposition demanded justice at the opening of a UN-backed panel meant to usher in reconciliation, political reform, and free-and-fair elections as a basis for lasting peace.
THE LISTENING POST
Turkey, Syria and the war that just gets tougher to report
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...rian-army-turkish-forces-191031054612060.html
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Khamenai mercenary eliminated in Syria. Recently Putin aka Khamenei are escalating their attacks against Idlib. Its not enough to them that they slaughtered over 1 million and expelled from their houses 12 million. They want more blood.
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Several people have been reported killed by a car bomb in the northern Syrian border town of Tal Abyad.
Turkish state news media said at least 10 people were killed.
Turkish troops last month took control of Tal Abyad and other border towns from Kurdish forces, after US troops - who were protecting the Kurds - were pulled out of the region.
Pro-Turkey fighters and civilians were among the dead on Saturday, according to a UK-based monitoring group.
The monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said more than 30 people were also injured in the blast. Turkey's defence ministry accused a Syrian Kurdish militia group, the People's Protection Units (YPG), of planting the bomb. No group immediately claimed responsibility.
Turkey's military invaded the Kurdish-held border areas in northern Syria immediately after US forces were withdrawn. Turkey has a longstanding enmity with the Kurds and wants to push back the YPG from its border.
US President Donald Trump faced widespread international criticism for his decision to remove American troops from the area, leaving Kurdish forces - which allied with the US in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group, suffering heavy losses - outgunned by the Turkish military.
Tens of thousands of people fled their homes in October in border towns in northern Syria, including Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ain, as Turkish forces pushed into the area.
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while on TV the relationship between Erdogan & the Syrian refugees is all roses but make no mistake Erdogan (& rightly so) considers those refugees to be nothing more than a ticking time bomb that has to be disposed of as soon as possible wether to Syria or Europe, there was a poll a while ago by a respectable organization which said that no less than a third of Syrians support Jabhat Al nusra AKA Alqaeda.
there is no doubt that Erdogan would like to have extra land but the people in it are a burden therefore there are two possibilites:- one he will give all the land he controls back to the Syrian government eventually along with all the refugees in it, or he will send all the refugees to just a small portion of the land he controls & give it to the Syrian government while the majority of the land would be given the Palastine treatment that is the locals would be replaced with Turks, this way he would get most of the land but without it's radicalized people.
there is a myth in which many muslims outside Turkey believe which is that Erdogan is a hardcore islamic politician & is the chosen one to become the next caliph, in reality Erdogan only gave them this impression to gain their support.
it is similar to what was proposed to Hitler, in order to gain the support of the Arabs one of the plans proposed to Hitler was to tell the Arab public that Hitler is Imam Al-Mahdi himself! (this was from an interview with a historian) that is because all the politiciant all around the world know just how easy it is to fool those emotional non liberal muslims, all you have to do is say some religious slogans & the poor people will all follow you just like sheep because they are in dire need of a savior.
there is no doubt that Erdogan would like to have extra land but the people in it are a burden therefore there are two possibilites:- one he will give all the land he controls back to the Syrian government eventually along with all the refugees in it, or he will send all the refugees to just a small portion of the land he controls & give it to the Syrian government while the majority of the land would be given the Palastine treatment that is the locals would be replaced with Turks, this way he would get most of the land but without it's radicalized people.
there is a myth in which many muslims outside Turkey believe which is that Erdogan is a hardcore islamic politician & is the chosen one to become the next caliph, in reality Erdogan only gave them this impression to gain their support.
it is similar to what was proposed to Hitler, in order to gain the support of the Arabs one of the plans proposed to Hitler was to tell the Arab public that Hitler is Imam Al-Mahdi himself! (this was from an interview with a historian) that is because all the politiciant all around the world know just how easy it is to fool those emotional non liberal muslims, all you have to do is say some religious slogans & the poor people will all follow you just like sheep because they are in dire need of a savior.
