“They are calculating that things are going to their advantage”.
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The victory is key for Syria’s military access to the provincial capital, Aleppo city.
They said they were able to repel the attack but that clashes were ongoing.
He warned the YPG and the PKK “not to support terror in Turkey” just because of the ceasefire in Syria.
Cavusoglu also said the actual implementation of a cessation of hostilities in Syria is more important than its announcement.
The Kurdish militia group YPG, which controls Tel Abyad, said the attack was repelled. I think they are being more careful.
The latest proposed “cessation of hostilities” in Syria worked out by Russian Federation and the USA was expected to begin this Saturday, after a previous “cessation” set for last Friday failed.
De Mistura spoke to reporters Thursday in Geneva.
That includes besieged areas, where hundreds of thousands of people are said to remain.
Mr Davutoglu yesterday said if it was a case of Turkey’s security being at stake, “we do not get permission from anyone, we do not ask anyone but we do what’s required”. “Currently, the regime has halted the attack”, he added.
“Thus, Turkey’s presence in Syria will be brought to naught and Erdogan will have nothing to tell his electors in his defense”, the expert said. The cease-fire will not cover the Islamic State group, al-Qaida’s Syria branch known as the Nusra Front and other militant groups.
“When one party poses a threat to Turkey, and Turkey’s security is under threat, this cease-fire is not binding for us”, he remarked.
Syria’s main umbrella of opposition and rebel groups says dozens of factions have agreed to abide by the cease-fire that is due to go into effect at midnight.
Other attackers infiltrated from the south, Xelil said.
Turkey’s prime minister echoed those concerns Thursday, saying he is anxious that Russian Federation will continue to hit Syrian civilians or the moderate opposition during the truce.
Ibrahim Kalin also signalled that recent tensions between Turkey and the United States may be easing as Washington has become more “careful” in its support for Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters.
The World Food Program says it has conducted its first high-altitude airdrop over the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, which is under siege from the radical Islamic State group.
In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the cease-fire aiming to reduce the violence in Syria is only being partially implemented. But the report did not provide further details.
The advance comes ahead of a cease-fire meant to start on midnight Friday. “Its troops shelled the cities of Tal Abyad and Uslub”, head of the Syrian Kurdish mission to Moscow, Rodi Osman, told Russia’s Interfax news agency.
Syria’s government has blasted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for comments made a day earlier during testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Peskov says this wasn’t “the first time this observation group has published unconfirmed information that isn’t backed up by facts”. While Turkey consider them as terrorist organizations the USA sees them an important partner in the fight against ISIL.
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In the push on Khanaser, the Syrian army and pro-government Shiite militias were backed by Russian airstrikes, The Observatory said.
