Manbij offensive

SDF not present in anti-ISIL coalition meeting: US official

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an umbrella group overwhelmingly made up of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), has not attended any meeting in Washington of the international coalition to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a U.S. official told the Hürriyet Daily News on July 12. 

Turkey urges US, Russia to cut support to YPG

Turkey has reiterated its desire to remove the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG), from Manbij, urging both the United States and Russia not to support "terrorist groups" in Syria, just after the top soldiers of the three countries discussed the security situation in the war-torn country in a surprise meeting. 

German government not 'Nazis' but practices are reminiscent of Third Reich: Turkish FM

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has responded to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's criticism of Ankara's likening of the German government to the Nazis, asserting that present German politicians were not Nazis but that their practices were reminiscent of the era, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

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