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Focus: Turkey and Syria - Dec 26, 2016

By bartolo - Posted on 26 December 2016

All-out Turkey offensive to liberate al-Bab nears end as focus turns toward next target Manbij - Daily Sabah

US led int'l coalition refusing air support in al-Bab anti-Daesh op. unacceptable, Turkey spox Kalın says - Daily Sabah

Turkey moves tanks and guns to Syria border, eyes Raqqa if Trump agrees to block Kurdish forces from participating - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Erdogan says 'Turkey will never allow the formation of a new [Kurdish] state in northern Syria’, wants role in Raqqa ‘because Turkey is a global power' - Breibart

President Tayyip Erdoğan to ask Donald Trump to impose no-fly zone over Syria - The Independent

Qatar, Turkey hold talks on Syria crisis - gulf-times.com

Turkish military, Free Syrian Army shell Kurdish villages on Afrin canton situated between al-Bab and Manbij - Sputnik

Kurdish YPG reports ongoing attacks by Turkish army near Kobanê with heavy weapons - ANF

Kurdish YPG militia says to leave Manbij, it finished training local security units in Manbij which it captured from Islamic State - Kurdpress News Aganecy

U.S. does not support connecting Kurdish cantons in Syrian Kurdistan: Ambassador to Ankara - ekurd

Russia met 24 Syrian Kurdish parties: Russian general - Kurdpress News Aganecy

US backed Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces 5km from strategic Tabqa dam west of Raqqa - Rudaw

Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces say make gains in Raqqa province, have liberated 97 villages from ISIS in the past 10 days - VOA

Kurdish female fighters playing key role in battle for Raqqa - ARA News

US-Led coalition bracing for bombing raids against Daesh in Syria's Raqqa, 'We will be stepping up the training for Syrian Democratic Forces’ - Sputnik

ISIS jihadists burn four men to death on charges of supporting Kurdish forces - ARA News

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