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James Mattis says US to install observation posts on Syria-Turkey border to minimise tensions between Turks, Kurds
James Mattis said US will be setting up observation posts in several locations up along the northern Syrian border
Turkey, Syrian rebel allies take full control of war-torn country's Afrin region after eight-week campaign, says source
Turkey’s military and its Syrian rebel allies have taken full control of northwest Syria’s Afrin region, a Turkish army source said on Saturday.
Turkish-led forces capture Kurdish town of Afrin, seizure likely to have repercussions on Syrian civil war
The capture of Afrin from the Kurds by Turkish-led fighters on Sunday could have major repercussions for Syria's protracted war
Turkish forces in control of Syria's Afrin city; no clashes between pro-Ankara forces, Kurdish groups
The journalists in Afrin saw Ankara-backed Syrian Arab fighters and Turkish soldiers in every neighbourhood of the city.
Turkey denies allegations of using chemical weapons in Syria's Afrin region, says it takes utmost care of civilians
Syrian Kurdish forces and a monitoring group said the Turkish military carried out a suspected gas attack that wounded six people in Syria’s Afrin region on Friday.
Syria sees thousands protest in Afrin to end Turkish-led assault, urge Russia to take firm stand
Thousands protested in Syria's Afrin on Sunday as local authorities called on world powers to intervene to halt a Turkish-led assault, accusing Russia of complicity in civilian deaths in the region
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Syrian military operation against Kurds would stretch as far as Iraq
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkish forces would sweep Kurdish fighters from the Syrian border and could push all the way east to the frontier with Iraq — a move which risks a possible confrontation with US forces allied to the Kurds
Turkey reacts sharply after US-led coalition in Syria announces creation of 30,000-strong border security force
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said on Sunday it was working to create a 30,000-strong border security force in northern Syria.