Tell Abyad offensive

Turkey said on Friday that US President Donald Trump told President Tayyip Erdogan he had issued instructions that weapons should not be provided to Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria, and that the Turkish government hoped to see that order carried out.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis left open on June 27 the possibility of longer-term assistance to the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria, saying the U.S. may need to supply them weapons and equipment even after the capture of Raqqa from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on June 27 left open the possibility of longer-term assistance to Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, saying the U.S. may need to supply them weapons and equipment even after the capture of Raqqa from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

President Tayyip Erdoğan had two main expectations from his May 16 meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Heavy clashes between Turkish army & YPG near Dirbesiye border.

Two Turkish tank destroyed by the YPG.

Turkish army is attacking Firfirk village in Rajo district using heavy weapons & canons, YPG, in turn, responded to the attacks.

Reports coming in say the city of Derbisyie is getting bombed by Turkish warplanes.

Turkish warplanes struck 15 targets in the al-Bab area of northern Syria on Nov. 13 in an operation with Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters to drive Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants out of the border region, the Turkish military said on Nov. 14. 

Turkish military sources have denied reports that Turkey hit Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) positions in Tal Abyad across the border on Feb. 27 and 28.

Speaking to daily Hürriyet, military sources said neither YPG nor Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions on the Syrian side of the border have been targeted, refuting Russia's claims.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants on July 25 detonated explosive laden trucks in two villages near the Kurdish-controlled Syrian border town of Tel Abyad, with reports of casualties, a monitor that tracks the war said.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters seized a Syrian town back from Kurdish-led forces near Raqqa city on July 6, a group monitoring the war reported, recovering ground near its de facto capital two days after it was pummelled in heavy U.S.-led air strikes. 

A Syrian Kurdish militia said on July 1 it had recovered full control of the border town of Tel Abyad after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters raided its outskirts the day before in preparation for a larger assault.