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Turkey asks Germany to arrest, extradite YPG ringleader
Turkey has asked Germany to arrest and extradite YPG leader Ferhat Abdi Shahin, code-named Mazloum Kobani, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Nov. 18.
US rebuilding military bases in northeast Syria
U.S. troops have begun rebuilding a military base in the south of Ayn al-Arab, or Kobani, which was previously evacuated during Turkey's anti-terror operation in northern Syria.
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US should hand YPG leader over to Ankara: Erdoğan
YPG/PKK terrorist ringleader Ferhat Abdi Şahin, codenamed Mazloum Kobani, is wanted by Interpol with a red notice, and the U.S. should hand him over to Ankara, Turkey's president said on Oct. 24.
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US withdraws forces from observation post in Syria
The U.S. on Oct. 13 withdrew its forces from military observation post south of Ayn Al-Arab in northern Syria, according to security sources.
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Turkish cross-border fire kills four YPG members in Syria: Report
Four YPG members were killed after Turkish forces fired howitzer shells across the border into Syria's Ayn al Arab region, state-run Anadolu Agency said on Oct. 31.
YPG threatening Turkey's national security: Presidential spokesperson
The United States is supporting the YPG in Syria but the group's presence in the war-torn country is becoming a threat to Turkey's national security, presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has said.
Syrian grandmother defies perils to cross Aegean at age 110
How far can a desire to see a loved one take us? Laila Saleh was so desperate to see the granddaughters she helped raise that she didn't think twice about following the rest of her family out of northern Syria, despite being 110 years old.
23-year-old Student killed 100 ISIS militants now has a $1 Million bounty on her head! (PHOTOS)
Joanna Palani is a 23-year-old politics student from Denmark. She also happens to have a $1 million bounty on her head. Why? Because believe it or not, Joanna is thought to have killed over 100 ISIS militants while fighting alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq and Syria.
Is a good neighbor hard to find in the Middle East?
In the 15th Istanbul Biennial, the theme grabs you almost as much as the works of art. It is a misleadingly simple, event upbeat phrase: "A Good Neighbor." Yet, it is so emotionally explosive, so laden with baggage and so variable that, as the Nordic duo of curators, Elmsgreen and Dragset said, it seems to have an invisible question mark at the end.
The world has forgotten us, says the family of refugee boy Aylan
The world has forgotten the fate of refugees, the aunt of Aylan Kurdi, who became an international symbol of the ongoing refugee crisis after photos of him lying face down on a beach in Bodrum emerged in 2015, has said.