Military history

Turkey has urged the United States to complete the implementation of a bilateral deal that stipulates the withdrawal of all YPG terrorists from the Syrian province of Manbij by the end of 2018 and to expand the scope of the deal to the east of Euphrates River to avoid a confrontation between the Turkish and American troops.

Turkey's Special Forces Command and units from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) launched a joint operation in the early hours of Nov. 18 against a crime group in the Syrian province of Afrin.

Turkey's defense minister has voiced Ankara's objection to U.S. soldiers celebrating a veterans' holiday with YPG militants in Syria during his meeting with the U.S.' top general.

Turkey's defense minister on Nov. 17 blasted a photo of U.S. soldiers having dinner with YPG members in Syria.

As Croatia prepares to mark the 27thanniversary of the fall of Vukovar, the Humanitarian Law Centre said the Yugoslav People’s Army deployed massive force during the siege and capture of the Croatian town in 1991.

The PYD/YPG is the Syrian branch of the PKK terror group, the American Special Representative for Syria James Jeffrey said Nov. 15.

A senior British general in the global coalition against ISIL has hailed the Turkish-United States joint patrol missions in the northern Syrian city of Manbij.

Vucic also announced the possibility of expanding military cooperation with that country.

"I believe that we will get something else from China, get something, and pay for something, but I will only say it when I get a confirmation from the president of that country," Vucic told reporters on Tuesday.

AGERPRES special correspondent Florentina Peia reports: President Klaus Iohannis was among the over 70 world leaders who attended on Sunday at the Arch of Triumph in Paris the ceremony of the Centennial of the Armistice that put an end to the WWI hostilities.

Syrian government forces killed 22 rebels near Idlib province on Friday, the deadliest clash to rock a buffer zone where a Russian-Turkish truce is to be enforced.