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Washington’s main Syrian ally in the fight against Islamic State says the U.S. military will remain in northern Syria long after the jihadists are defeated, predicting enduring ties with the Kurdish-dominated region.

In the latest display of Turkish anger at U.S. policy in Syria, the state news agency has divulged the locations of 10 U.S. military bases and outposts in northern Syria where the U.S. is leading an operation to destroy the so-called Islamic State in its self-styled capital of Raqqa.

What are the plans of the United States of America for Syria?

Satellite pictures presented to the German Bild may be a good basis for experts to draw conclusions about Washington's long-term strategy in the Middle East. Reports Focus.

Four outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants who illegally crossed into the country from Syria's Kobane to stage "sensational" bomb attacks were apprehended in the Suruç district of the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa on June 27, Doğan News Agency has reported.

After a ruthless and exhausting 6 years of war in Syria, only the most ideologically strong militias have managed to flourish, absorbing various fragmented rebel factions and uniting them under strict philosophies.

A spokeswoman for Republican Senator John McCain said Feb. 22 that he traveled to northern Syria last week to discuss plans for defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with U.S. forces stationed there.
McCain, an Arizona Republican, is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

BELGRADE - Turkey's President Erdogan has accused the US of supplying arms to Kurds fighting against Islamic State in Syria. Erdogan equated the Kurdish forces with IS militants, and referred to previous cases when American weapons were seized by Islamists.

Turkey is living through extraordinary times, I would say, and the readers would ask, "When it was not?" Indeed, this country has always been at some sort of a critical junction. Yet, was it ever in a position like the situation we are in now? 

Turkey's cross-border operation inside Syria to clear the area from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has entered its second week, and one wonders whether the Free Syrian Army (FSA) may even walk all the way to Damascus in front of the Turkish army. After all, it has faced very little resistance on the way to capturing the Azaz-Jarablus corridor.

The former police chief of the Suruç district in Şanlıurfa province has claimed that a warning letter, sent from the Şanlıurfa provincial police HQ to the Suruç district police office three days before an ISIL suicide bomb attack in Suruç last July, warned them about an attack targeting security forces - rather than the group that was attacked.