Turkey on Friday turned down a French offer to mediate with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces dominated by a Kurdish militia deemed a terrorist outfit by Ankara, a presidential spokesman said. “We reject any efforts to promote ‘dialogue’, ‘contact’ or ‘mediation’ between Turkey and those terrorist organizations,” Ibrahim Kalin wrote ...
US President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that US forces would pull out of Syria “very soon” and lamented what he said was Washington’s waste of $7 trillion in Middle East wars. In an address to industrial workers in Ohio, Trump said US forces were ‘close to securing all of the ...
