Saturday, 27 January, 2018 , 12:48 AFP — Turkey on Saturday urged the United States to "immediately withdraw" its personnel from Manbij in northern Syria, a city held by a Syrian Kurdish militia that Ankara is fighting in an offensive launched last week.

Saturday, 27 January, 2018 , 10:46 AFP — The US has reiterated a pledge to Turkey to stop arming a Syrian Kurdish militia that Ankara is fighting, the Turkish presidency said Saturday, after the allies' ties were strained by Turkey's offensive in Syria.

Saturday, 27 January, 2018 , 10:41 AFP — Hundreds of Kurds took to the streets of Cologne on Saturday in protest over Turkey's offensive in northern Syria, as German officials warned against tensions between the country's huge Kurdish and Turkish communities.

Friday, 26 January, 2018 , 21:31 AFP — Only a few olive groves separate Turkish special forces and allied Syrian rebels from Kurdish militia fighters as the crash of mortar fire echoes on the frontline of Ankara's offensive inside Syria.

Friday, 26 January, 2018 , 17:47 AFP — Turkey's army launched a major air and ground operation in northern Syria a week ago in a bid to oust a US-allied Kurdish militia that it considers a terror group.

Friday, 26 January, 2018 , 15:45 AFP — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday threatened to expand Turkey's offensive in Syria against a Kurdish militia, despite rising concern and calls for restraint from the US and other Western allies.

Friday, 26 January, 2018 , 15:21 AFP — US President Donald Trump said Friday that US-backed coalition forces had won back almost 100 percent of territory occupied by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

Friday, 26 January, 2018 , 12:20 AFP — Trapped in a basement for three days with his family as Turkey shelled their northern Syrian hometown, Merhi Hassan fled just in time to escape bombardment that almost killed his elderly father.

Friday, 26 January, 2018 , 12:16 AFP — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday threatened to expand Turkey's offensive in Syria against a Kurdish militia despite calls for restraint from its Western allies.

Friday, 26 January, 2018 , 10:01 AFP — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday threatened to expand Turkey's offensive against the Afrin region in Syria to other cities in the country's north to remove the presence of the Syrian Kurdish militia that Ankara views as terrorists.