Jim Mattis

The U.S.'s ongoing support for the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) dominated Pentagon chief Jim Mattis's talks in Ankara on Aug. 23, with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan complaining about Washington's policy, a Turkish official has told the Hürriyet Daily News. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed Ankara's disturbance over Washington's support to the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) during his on Aug. 23 meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, according to presidential sources.

Donald Trump will announce his decision on America's strategy in Afghanistan on Monday night in an address to US troops and the nation almost 16 years after the war began, according to The Guardian.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis will visit Turkey in the coming days, Turkish Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın stated on Aug. 17. 

U.S. President Donald Trump has hardened his warning that North Korea would face "fire and fury" if it kept threatening the U.S., saying maybe that tough talk "wasn't tough enough."

Turkey’s scapegoating of US special envoy Brett McGurk over the military partnership between the United States and the Syrian Kurds grew crazier today, with one pro-government newspaper labeling him a murderer.

President Donald Trump said on July 26 he would ban transgender people from the U.S. military, a move appealing to some in his conservative political base but creating uncertainty about the fate of thousands of transgender service members.

China has been building up its defences along its border with North Korea, a report says, amid tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.

Beijing has established a new border brigade, built bunkers to protect civilians against nuclear blasts, and set up 24-hour surveillance along its frontier, the Wall Street Journal said.

President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he is not allowing transgender people to serve in the U.S. military, a reversal of former President Obama’s decision last year to let them serve.
In a series of tweets, he said:

President Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States will not "accept or allow" transgender people in the United States military, saying American forces "must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory" and could not afford to accommodate them, NY Times writes.