February 11, The Iran Project - According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, so far over 68 civilians, including 21 children, have been killed in Turkish shelling in northwestern Syrian city of Afrin. Turkey launched the alleged "Operation Olive Branch" in Syria's Afrin on January 20 in a bid to eliminate the Kurdish People's ...

SANA SANAs reporter in Aleppo said on Monday that popular forces are to arrive in Afrin area soon to support locals in facing the aggression launched by the Turkish regime on the area since January 20th. The reporter said that the arrival of popular forces will strengthen the locals resilience and resistance against the Turkish aggression which ...

IFP- A Turkish diplomatic source says Ankara never used chemical weapons in its operations in Syria, and takes the utmost care of civilians. The source on Saturday rejected the baseless accusations raised by Kurdish forces, saying Turkey never used chemical weapons. We take utmost care about civilians in Operation Olive Branch. Syrian Kurdish ...

Press TV- US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have had a meeting as relations between the two North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)partners have frayed in the wake of Ankaras ongoing cross-border offensive in Syrias northwestern region of Afrin against the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG). A ...

Iran Review | Qasem Mohebali: About 20 days after Turkey started its military operation in Syrias Afrin region, it seems that Ankara has so far failed to achieve its goals through this operation. During recent days, Turkeys military advances in northern Syria have remarkably slowed down and its forces have suffered high causalities. Turkeys goal was ...

SANA- Two civilians, including an 8-year-old girl, were injured Wednesday in the continued aggression launched by forces of the Turkish regime with different types of weapons on Afrin City and the villages surrounding it in Aleppo northern countryside. Local sources told SANA that the heavy shelling by the Turkish forces with rocket launchers on ...

SANA- The Turkish regime escalated its aggression on Afrin area in northern Aleppo countryside, killing and injuring more civilians, including children and women. The continued shelling of the area for the 24th day in a row caused further destruction of civilians houses, infrastructure and public utilities. Local sources told SANA Monday that ...

Sputnik - Any military actions in Syria should be agreed with the countrys government, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei told Sputnik in an interview. "As regards Afrin, the Islamic Republic ofIran, inaccordance withthe UN Charter and international law, advocates forthe preservation ofthe territorial integrity ofSyria and believes ...

SANA Thousands of citizens took to the streets of Afrin to denounce the Turkish aggression on their city. The aggression of the Turkish regime on the Afrin area entered its nineteenth day, with hundreds of civilians having been killed or injured as a result of targeting homes, infrastructure, and public facilities. The protesters said that Afrin ...

Al-Monitor | Hamidreza Azizi: The Turkish military operation in Afrin against Kurdish fighters has sparked different reactions among various parties involved in Syria, based on how each actor interprets the goals and implications of Ankaras unilateral move. While theUnited Stateshas appeared to be against the operation, especially given Washingtons ...

Iranian Diplomacy- Damascus has complained to the United Nations about Turkey's military campaign in northern Syria, denouncing the operation as "an assault and occupation" of the Syrian territory. The Syrian Foreign Ministry has further urged the UN Security Council "not to allow any state to use force in a way that contradicts international law ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: Turkey's military incursion deep inside the Syrian territory is a direct violation of Syrian territorial sovereignty and integrity and follows the impossible mission of crushing the Kurdish opposition groups and creating an extensive buffer zone along the vast Turkish-Syrian border that, overtime, can only mean ...

SANA- The Turkish regime continued its aggression against Afrin city in Aleppo northern countryside through shelling residential neighborhoods with different types of weapons, leaving more civilians dead, mostly children and women, in addition to causing huge damage to the houses. Civil sources told SANA that the continued shelling by forces of ...

Financial Tribune- A lawmaker called the ongoing Turkish military operation against Kurdish militants in the northern Syrian region of Afrin a mistake that should be stopped. Farhad Tajarri, himself a Kurd, said that the Kurds in northern Iraq and Syria are victims of terrorism themselves and only a small number of them are linked to the Kurdistan ...

SANA- For the ninth day in a row, forces of the Turkish regime continued their aggression on citizens houses, worship places and archaeological sites in Afrin area and the surrounding villages in Aleppo northern countryside. Civil sources told SANA that the Turkish regimes forces on Sunday shelled with different types of weapons and heavy artillery ...

Press TV- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says US military forces need to immediately withdraw from Syria's northern region of Manbij as Turkish troops are engaged in an operation in the Arab countrys Afrin region against militants from the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG). Speaking to reporters in the capital Ankara on Saturday,...

Sputnik- Turkeys Operation Olive Branch was recently commenced with the stated intent of destroying what Ankara believes to be Kurdish terrorists in the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin. The NATO member earlier warned that it would be forced tointervene there inresponse tothe existential threat that the US' plans fordeploying a 30,000-strong ...

MNA Turkeys Ambassador in Iran R?za Hakan Tekin in an exclusive interview with Mehr News agency says one cannot provide an exact time frame for the end of the military operation in Afrin, Syria but Turkey want to complete the operation in a short period of time. Turkish military on Saturday announced that it has launched Operation Olive Branch ...

Press TV - The Turkish military has claimed that at least 260 Kurdish forces and Daesh terrorists have been killed since Ankara launched its offensive into northern Syria four days ago. The announcement was made in a late Tuesday statement in which the Turkish Armed Forces stressed that "Operation Olive Branch" is continuing successfully. It ...

Sputnik- A new wave of violence has swept over the north of Syria, as Ankara's operation launched in Afrin against Kurdish forces active in the region has entered its fourth day. The United Nations expresses its deep concern over Turkey's ongoing operation in the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, which has already claimed lives of civilians ...