A Kurdish commander in the Syrian Democratic Forces, the US-backed group that helped defeat ISIS, was murdered in a targeted assassination by a drone strike in Syria on July 22. The attack by Turkey, using an armed drone, appears to be the latest
Turkey has threatened a new invasion of Syria similar to the ones in October 2019 and January 2018 that resulted in the widespread ethnic cleansing of Kurds, Yazidis and other minorities. In comments this week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that
Ankara vows to take over a swath of the border era • previous invasions forced Kurds and other minorities to flee • Turkey wants to re-settle the border with Syrian Arab refugees