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Turkey Says Kurdish YPG Should Not Be Involved in Syria Talks
FILE – A man holds a flag of the YPG, a Syria-based Kurdish militant group, during a protest against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in front of the Brookings Institution in Washington, where Erdogan was speaking, March 31, 2016. Share ANKARA — Turkey would welcome the […]
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Nusra-Linked Syrian Held in Beirut as Suspect Arrested for Plotting Attack on Army
The State Security agency arrested Thursday a Syrian man in Beirut on charges of “entering Lebanon illegally” and “having ties and contacts with al-Nusra Front,” al-Qaida’s Syria branch, media reports said. Later on Thursday, the General Security agency announced that another Syrian has been arrested […]
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France’s Le Pen in Lebanon, Calls for Bolstering Ties
France’s far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday met for the first time with a foreign head of state, holding talks in Beirut with Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun. “We discussed the long and fruitful friendship between our two countries,” the National Front […]