The altitude- 5,600 to 6,000 metres- and the targets to be bombed- in the area of the Chefir, Mortlou and Zahia region in the north of Syria, on the frontier of the Turkish region of Hatay.
Turkey's recent incursion into northern Syria is poised to finally establish the long-sought after“buffer zone” or“safe haven” called for by US policymakers since.
In the past six months, North Syria's government has established learning centers across the territory(home to about 20 million people), each providing free tuition in tech and philosophy.
Turkey's recent incursion into northern Syria is poised to finally establish the long-sought after“buffer zone” or“safe haven” called for by US policymakers since as early as 2012.
More Kurds will serve in the areas in northern Syria,” while Arab militias will be present“along the Euphrates River Valley and along the border with Iraq to the south,” according to the Coalition.
On July 19, freelance photographer John Cantile, alongside his Dutch colleague Jeroen Oerlemans, was kidnapped in northern Syrian and freed one week later.
Jabhat al Nusra, Ahrar al Sham and other armed opposition groups have depended on weapons and foreign fighters coming in via Turkey for attacks on northern Syria including Syria's largest city, Aleppo.
That's how 22-year-old programming student Mohamed Abdullah describes the Open Academy- a new school in North Syria, a de-facto autonomous region also known as Rojava.
While“mending the fence” with Russia, Turkey's military and intelligence apparatus was involved in planning the invasion of Northern Syria in liaison with Washington and NATO headquarters in Brussels.
It's obviously not a coincidence that the safety umbrella that US policymakers are trying to pop open over the northern Syria is going to cover massive detachments of radical militants that have been rallying in Idlib from all parts of Syria, and now we see the reasoning behind this trend.
The invasion is also part of a longstanding project by Turkey of creating a“safe-haven” within Northern Syria(see map) which can be used to extend US-NATO-Turkey military operations Southwards into Syria's heartland.
As Russia maintained a de facto no-fly zone in northern Syria by the Turkish border, Turkey lost its ability to give air support to Syrian rebels or protect its borders from Islamic State(IS) militants' shelling.
For all Erdogan's tough talk, it is not at all clear what the Turkish army and its local allies hope to achieve in northern Syria where they have few real friends and many dangerous enemies.
The withdrawal has now effectively been reversed, but at the time, many believed Turkey, which shares a border with Northern Syria, would attack(the country has engaged a continuous offensive against the region since 2016).
When in March 2016, Syrian Kurds declared the establishment of an autonomous Federation of Northern Syria, Bashar Assad opposed the move despite the fact that the Kurds did not demand independence but just called for a federation.
When Syrian Kurds declared the establishment of an autonomous Federation of Northern Syria in March 2016, Assad opposed the move despite the fact that the Kurds did not demand independence but just called for a federation.
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