[AlAhram] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
sent artillery units to the border with Syria Saturday, where its army regularly festivities with Kurdish militia, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
A military convoy with at least five howitzers arrived overnight at the southern city of Kilis the scene of recent cross-border fire between the
The new units were there to reinforce rather than replace the artillery already in place, the agency reported, citing military sources.
Across the border from the province of Kilis lies an area of northwest Syria that is controlled by the YPG, which is Washington-backed but deemed a terror group by Ankara.
Turkey considers the YPG as the Syrian arm of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged an over three decade insurgency against the
But the United States works closely with the group as the best ground force in Syria to defeat Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS) bully boys. Turkey's NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
allies do not regard the YPG as a terror organization.