A place in syrias future if it cuts all ties with the assad regime he also says that turkey has no plans to send Ground Troops into syria. Bernard smith that more on monday mornings raised. 15 people have been arrested in this latest wave of raised by the security services. The authorities eight all arrested are foreigners. They are part of a series of raised going on for the past weeks and months in turkey. They picked up steam after the suicide bombing last weekend. Turkey said its targeting not just isil supporters, potential fighters, also targeting people from the kurdistan workers party, the p. K. K. And extreme leftwing in turkey, saying targets are all groups that it consider as threat to turkeys national security. Over the border, the syrian kurds there claim that the Turkish Military shelled a village near kobane twice once on friday that the y. P. G. Assumed was a mistake when they shelled y. P. G. Positions and again on sunday. The Turkish Military said its investigating th
The change. In is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. In just a few hours ethiopias leaders will hold a state dinner for president obama who has become the first sitting u. S. Visit the country. He spoke about humans rights with ethiopians Prime Minister. He met with other leaders in the region to discuss the crisis in south sudan. The situation is deteriorating. The humanitarian situation is worsening. The possibilities of renewed conflict in a region that has been torn by conflict for so long and has resulted in so many deaths is something that requires urgent attention from all of us. We have more now on the president s visit. President obama held talks with his ethiopias Prime Minister and discuss trade and cooperation between ethiopia and u. S. Ethiopia is one of the United States allies in the war against terrorism. Theyveethiopian troops manage to take back from alshabab two of last remaining strongholds. President obama lauded the African Union mission
We begin with a greater involvement by turkey in the fight against isil. The United States and turkey are said to be finalizing plans to create a safe zone along the turkey syria border. Mike viqueira joins us live from washington. What more are you learning about this plan . Reporter for months they couldnt agree on the best tactics to confront isil now theres new cooperation and a new agreement, but turkey has a different agenda and another enemy than the United States. A week ago in the border town turks gather in an anti isil protest. Moments later, tragedy. [ explosion ] reporter amid the chaos, 32 are dead. Isil is respect expected of carrying out the attacks. The next day turks urge the government to do more. Against this backdrop of unrest turkey stepping deeper into the fight against isil. Agreeing to allow Coalition Aircraft to fly out of their air base and the turks have launched their own attacks against isil targets. Now the u. S. And turkey are negotiating a socalled safe
And searches for hundreds of people and lion lost, the is a farithesatisfy is a the safari tourist responsible. We begin tonight with turkey entangled in a war with two enemies. Turkish jets struck pkk strongholds in iraq. Turkey invoked its nato membership and call for an you unusual emergency meeting on its security position tomorrow in brussels. Antiterror campaign arresting more than a thousand people in the past two days. Is zeina khodr reports from the turkish syrian border. It says it is cooperating with Ground Forces already inside syria. Those troops are not syrias kurds who the coalition that is been relying on but opposition groups who are fighting both siel and the Syrian Government. Be turkish Prime Minister has agreed that those opposition groups should be protected. The agreement we reached has covered our concerns and expectations up to a certain level. I cannot go into details but for example, an important point was the protection of the Free Syrian Army and the groups
Natural world. Knights and turkey agreed on a plan to fight isil within syrian territory. This is the area where the proposed buffer zone would be. From washington, patty culhain has more. Reporter turkey is talking to u. S. Officials about creating an isilfree zone. It would cover 110kilometer stretch. It will be a safe place for the millions of refugees in turkey. But the Obama Administration will not create a no fly zone. Experts say its unlikely there will be enough u. S. Trained Syrian Opposition to do it on their own. The opposition to the assad regime doesnt have the military capacity the turks would not want around their border. And the united states, european allies, are too far away providing that military presence. So it will come down to actually guaranteeded that a zone will be free of isis. Reporter they left some to question it. I understand the coincidence of all of this. It is just that. Against the pkk. Reporter the pentagon says they can have an agreement in the next