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The area has also been nicknamed Federal Northern Syria and the Democratic Confederalist Autonomous Areas of Northern Syria. [9] The first name of the local government for the Kurdish-dominated areas in Afrin District, Ayn al-Arab District (Kobanî), and northern al-Hasakah Governorate was "Interim Transitional Administration", adopted in 2013. [9]
The Northern Syrian Provinces, or Cilicia and Upper Mesopotamia, were territories of historical and Ottoman Syria that were annexed by Turkiye following World War 1. In 1921, the Ankara Agreement was finalised between France and the Turkish national government, in which, in exchange for Turkey's recognition of the French mandate over Syria ...
Northern Syria or North Syria may refer to: Upper Mesopotamia, which partly overlaps with northeastern Syria; Northern governorates, of the Syrian Arab Republic; Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, self-declared autonomous region in Syria; Turkish occupation of North Syria, joint Turkish-Syrian opposition held buffer zone
Fact Check: Syrian rebels have taken a large swathe of territory from Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad in northern Syria, including the city of Aleppo, according to NPR. Social media users are ...
The Turkish Armed Forces and its ally the Syrian National Army have occupied [7] [8] areas of northern Syria since August 2016, during the Syrian civil war.Though these areas nominally acknowledge a government affiliated with the Syrian opposition, in practice they constitute a separate proto-state [9] under the dual authority of decentralized native local councils and Turkish military ...
The New York-based watchdog said the abuses were committed by Turkish forces and also armed factions backed by Ankara in areas they control in northern Syria. There was no immediate response from ...
The Northern Syria Buffer Zone (also known as the Safe Zone, Peace Corridor, or Security Mechanism) was a temporary Syrian civil war demilitarized zone (DMZ) established on the Syrian side of the Syria–Turkey border in August 2019 to maintain security along the border and to dissuade a prospective Turkish invasion of the self-proclaimed Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. [1]
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners "cannot last forever," the acting U.S. Ambassador to the United ...