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He was denying a Syrian complaint to the UN that Turkish soldiers were among about 100 fighters allowed to cross into Syria on February 13. Turkish artillery has pounded targets…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB208455
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Turkey carried out its first airstrikes inside Syria on July 24, almost a year after the start of the US-led campaign against ISG. However, critics claim that Turkey is simply…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB201599
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Iraq’s president on March 8 ratified a law mandating reparations for Yazidi women enslaved and trafficked by Islamic State (IS). However, efforts to improve the security situation…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB260147
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeated his threat of May 23 to invade Syria to "complete" a 30-kilometre-deep ‘safe zone’ and push Kurdish groups away from the border…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270708
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The United States, Russia and other international powers agreed a cessation of hostilities in Munich last week, scheduled to begin on February 18. However, the deal requires…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB208476
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Troops supporting President Bashar al-Assad launched their latest offensive in Syria’s last large rebel-held region in November 2019. Russian air support has enabled them to make…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB250528
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This came after pro-Damascus troops yesterday attacked the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed, Kurdish-led outfit that has taken much of the territory east of the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB229642
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On August 30, Moscow announced a unilateral ceasefire, pausing a Russian-backed offensive that has been ongoing since late April, during which time over 1,000 civilians have been…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB246324
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The US-Russian-Jordanian July 9 agreement on a ceasefire in southern Syria has achieved calm in the area for now. The southernmost ‘de-escalation zone’ on the Syria-Jordan border…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB224013
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The latest tragedies in the Mediterranean come as the Libyan arm of the Islamic State group (ISG) released a video purporting to show the killings of 30 Ethiopian Christians. Both…