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AMN Al-Masdar News
March 9, 2018
The Turkish armed forces will clear the territory from the eastern bank of the Euphrates in Syria up to the border with Iraq of terrorists, after it does the same in Afrin and Manbij cities, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday. “Today we are in Afrin, tomorrow we will be in Manbij, the next day weÃâà...
CNN
March 8, 2018
Washington (CNN) Pro-Syrian regime forces have begun massing east of the Euphrates River near where US troops are present while advising local allies, according to three US military officials. They are assembling near where similar pro-regime forces allied with Syrian President Bashar al-AssadÃâà...
CNN
March 7, 2018
Four branches of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), thus far tasked with defeating ISIS in Syria, have been transferred from east of the Euphrates Rivers to the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali told CNN in a statement. "We won't abandon our positions, but since the beginning of theÃâà...
Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center
March 7, 2018
In the lower Euphrates Valley, in the area where ISIS operates, there are three major cities that were severely damaged during the campaign against the Islamic State. To date, no significant rehabilitation process has been carried out in these cities. The delay in the rehabilitation, and the local population'sÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
March 4, 2018
Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield, which began in late August in 2016 and ended in March 2017, eliminated terrorists along the Syrian border."The removal of terrorist organizations, like Daesh, has normalized psychological well-being in our province and region," said Fatma Şahin, speaking to AnadoluÃâà...
PRESSTV
February 17, 2018
A senior Iranian official says the resistance front in the region will push the United States and Israel out of the eastern side of the Euphrates River, which flows from Turkey through Syria and into Iraq. Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei onÃâà...
Business Insider
February 16, 2018
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has proposed to the United States that Kurdish YPG fighters withdraw to east of the Euphrates river in Syria and that Turkish and U.S. troops be stationed together in the country's Manbij area, a Turkish official said on Friday. The official, who declined to be identified becauseÃâà...
News Deeply
February 14, 2018
On the eastern banks of the Euphrates, U.S.-backed forces control a number of oil fields and gas plants that the SDF seized from ISIS last year. Among them is the Conoco natural gas facility, which had the largest capacity of any gas field in Syria before the conflict. “Pro-regime forces want to recaptureÃâà...
Newsweek
February 14, 2018
Reporting out of Moscow suggests that some number of armed Russians—up to 200—were killed by the US-led, anti-ISIS coalition after crossing the Euphrates River deconfliction line in eastern Syria on February 7. If the reports are true, this was by far the bloodiest incident for Russian personnel sinceÃâà...
Rudaw
February 12, 2018
Iraqi forces free 11 SDF fighters from ISIS near Euphrates ... told Rudaw that after ISIS attacked their military outposts, 11 SDF fighters fled to the locations of the Iraqi forces in Dermrasla north of the Euphrates river in Anbar province. ... They have been actively clearing ISIS holdouts in the Middle Euphrates River Valley.
Sputnik International
February 8, 2018
The Russian Defense Ministry-affiliated Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) newspaper reported that Euphrates waters suddenly rose by several meters on January 6, causing the current to gain in speed significantly. "As a result, the bridge was destroyed the next day," the paper reported. "An investigation byÃâà...
