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13 Feb 2017, 11:05 am
The push is part of a campaign by Turkey which began back in August, codenamed Euphrates Shield, with the purpose of cleaning Turkey’s border of ISIS fighters and stopping the advance of Kurdish militias. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 8:03 am
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier this month that he intends to continue Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish intervention along the Turkey-Syria border in Manbij and Afrin provinces; Turkish and Turkish-backed militias flooded the border area in 2016, preventing Kurdish forces from uniting their western and eastern enclaves. [read post]
28 Feb 2017, 12:16 pm
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkish forces will next focus on pushing the Kurdish YPG to the east of the Euphrates River, ruling out any chance of Turkish cooperation with the YPG-aligned Syrian Democratic Forces. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 9:53 am
The New York Times reports that ISIS leaders are fleeing Raqqa as coalition forces converge on the city, with plans to carry on the fight from other sanctuaries in Syria and Iraq, such as Deir al-Zour in Syria and in towns along the Euphrates in Iraq. 3,000 to 4,000 ISIS fighters will remain in Raqqa to prepare for the coming fight, while no more than 2,500 fighters are struggling to maintain their hold on western Mosul in the face of a rapid advance by elite Iraqi army fighters with U.S.… [read post]
4 Mar 2016, 12:27 pm
Throughout the caliphate’s crusade in Iraq and Syria, the pseudo-state has taken control of six of the largest dams on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 12:39 pm
But Ankara said it would continue targeting the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) if the group failed to retreat east of the Euphrates River. [read post]
7 Jun 2016, 10:55 am
For those lucky enough to escape the Islamic State’s clutches, the New York Times adds that the journey across the Euphrates to Baghdad presents new dangers, and existing aid camps and humanitarian efforts have been stretched to capacity by both the influx of refugees and the Iraqi government’s tight control of traffic between Baghdad and Anbar Province. [read post]
13 Feb 2018, 7:00 am
The Pentagon said that an estimated 500 regime forces participated in the attack, which involved an effort to cross the Euphrates River at Khusham and bombard the SDF position with artillery. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 11:30 am
The government-controlled side has dealt with civilian casualties from mortar fire and the obstruction of the water pipeline from the Euphrates River by various opposition forces. [read post]
30 Mar 2017, 11:24 am
The BBC writes that Turkey said it has “successfully” ended its seven-month Euphrates Shield military campaign in northern Syria, but Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim did not rule out new military operations and did not say whether Turkish troops would leave Syria. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 11:53 am
Turkish officials hope that the border will be secured “in the first half of 2017” as a component of Operation Euphrates Shield, the military intervention into Syria that began in August. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 6:00 am
This odd pattern was tested on February 7, when a heavy U.S. air and artillery strike destroyed a grouping of pro-government forces advancing to capture an oil plant to the east of the Euphrates. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 5:00 am
The U.S. could strike certain regime targets the east of the Euphrates, where Russia’s position is relatively vulnerable, or elsewhere; it could also provide more military support to the Syrian opposition or coordinate further sanctions on the Syrian regime. [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 8:00 am
Starting in late December, Russian forces began dropping unguided bombs on Islamic State areas near al-Bab, where Turkish forces and Syrian rebels participating in Operation Euphrates Shield have been bogged down since November. [read post]
4 Oct 2016, 4:51 am
Syrian Rebels Advancing on Symbolic Islamic State-Occupied Town Free Syrian Army rebels, backed by the United States and bolstered by Turkey’s Euphrates Shield intervention, are advancing on the Islamic State stronghold of Dabiq, located north of Aleppo along the western edge of the Islamic State’s territory. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 7:56 am
In a campaign speech last month, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to “add new operations to the Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch operations” and to continue the intervention in Syria “until not one terrorist is left,” referring to Kurdish groups Turkey says are tied to the PKK. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 11:25 am
Elsewhere, Reuters reports that ISIS fighters are using water as a weapon, closing the gates of a key dam on the Euphrates River in western Iraq. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 12:26 pm
Almost all are "prehistoric," although they do include helpful discussions of the Big Dogs in the Fight, the valleys of the Nile and of the Tigris-Euphrates. [read post]
18 Feb 2016, 12:01 am
However, the British launched a second invasion up the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers which succeeded in capturing Bagdad, although efforts to rescue the first invasion force were unavailing. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 9:03 am
The cause is the enormous drop in Lake Assad, the main source of water for about five million Syrians, since the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group took over the Euphrates Dam in al-Tabqa. [read post]
