"He needs to stop the incursion into Syria," Pompeo said.
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Turkey, however, still chose to launch the incursion into Syria.
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Russia also remains under sanctions for its incursion into Ukraine.
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Russia began a military incursion into eastern Ukraine in 2014.
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Any incursion into the territory of a sovereign state is illegal.
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For Scalia, any incursion into a president's powers would be unconstitutional.
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If this sounds like an incursion into Labour territory, it is.
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Despite our opposition, they decided to make this incursion into Syria.
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Even the brief incursion into Georgia in 2008 was dogged by mishaps.
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There was the Russian incursion into Eastern Ukraine on Brennan&aposs watch.
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What are your concerns about Russia's incursion into U.K. politics using technology?
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Russia has accused Turkey of preparing a military incursion into northern Syria.
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It would mark the third Turkish incursion into Syria in as many years.
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Mr Cruz sees this as an unwarranted incursion into consumers' freedom of choice.
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Another persisting crisis -- Russia's continued incursion into Ukraine -- also drew Obama's attention Tuesday.
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The death toll from Turkey's week-long incursion into northeastern Syria was unclear.
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Should they so choose, they could execute a swift military incursion into Qatar.
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Sanctions were imposed on them in June related to Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
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It launched a military incursion into Syria in August against the radical Islamist group.
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"There was an incursion into the de-confliction zone," coalition spokesman US Army Col.
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Putin ordered an incursion into eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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Trump on Monday announced new sanctions on Ankara over its incursion into northern Syria.
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Turkey launched its first major military incursion into Syria just over two weeks ago.
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Sechin was the subject of U.S. sanctions on Russia following its incursion into Crimea.
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The latest battle began with an incursion into Israeli airspace by an Iranian reconnaissance drone.
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An incursion into Syria's north-west would place them at the mercy of Russian warplanes.
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Trump cleared the way for a long-threatened Turkish incursion into northeastern Syria on Oct.
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In October, Mr. Trump threatened to "destroy" Turkey's economy after its military incursion into Syria.
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Clinton's slippage in mostly white states by making a late incursion into Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Excluded after its incursion into Ukraine, Russia hasn't participated in the yearly gathering since 2014.
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But these have largely been continuations of Obama-era sanctions for Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
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It also imposed a "media gag" on discussions of the incursion into the syndicate, pending investigations.
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However, the Immigrant Workers Protection Act moves far beyond any prior incursion into federal immigration enforcement.
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The exchange was the most serious since a botched Israeli commando incursion into Gaza last November.
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Turkey has agreed to pause its incursion into northern Syria, but is lasting peace on the horizon?
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The President also said Turkey's incursion into Syria targeting former US allies earlier this month was necessary.
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Trump dismissed Swift's incursion into politics, and said he likes her music "about 25 percent less now."
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Congress originally cut ULA's supply to RD-2180 engines back in 43 after Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
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Washington has been alarmed by NATO ally Turkey's incursion into northern Syria, launched almost a week ago.
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Now to Agenda Item 4577, glorious Soviet incursion into the capitalist thieves' den of New York City.
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This potentially creates an incursion into WeWork's space directly from emerging markets and second/third-tier cities.
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During Israel's 2002 military incursion into the West Bank, Halawani captured images of combat, destruction, and pain.
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Turkey didn't-- the country that Turkey invaded, they conducted an incursion into, is Syria: a sovereign nation.
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The announcement comes amid bipartisan backlash over his decision to greenlight the country's incursion into northern Syria.
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Their return was postponed after Turkey launched a military incursion into northeast Syria to fight Kurdish militia.
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Turkey's military incursion into Syria, launched last Wednesday, is targeting both Islamic State militants and Kurdish militia fighters.
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President Donald Trump on Monday announced he's hitting Turkey with sanctions over its military incursion into northeast Syria.
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The bank was hit with sanctions by the Obama administration in 2014 after Russia's military incursion into Ukraine.
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Neither does his awkward incursion into the dismal marriage of his lover (Katharina Schüttler) and her sozzled husband.
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EÖ: It became clear Turkey would attempt an incursion into Syria, so I arrived in Akçakale on Oct.
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"We could've stopped Turkey's incursion" into northern Syria, the Institute for the Study of War's Jennifer Cafarella told me.
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But Turkey's incursion into Syria also had the dual goal of making sure the YPG didn't capture Jarabulus first.
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At the news conference, Maas also addressed tensions with NATO ally Turkey over its incursion into Syria on Oct.
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But it warned against an incursion into Manbij, where the Turks could come into direct contact with American forces.
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Turkey's military incursion into Kurdish-controlled northern Syria has unsettled investors who already had concerns about the region's stability.
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On Monday, Trump announced that he would soon impose sanctions against Turkey in retaliation for its incursion into Syria.
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" He added: "Turkey didn't — the country that Turkey invaded, they conducted an incursion into, is Syria, a sovereign nation.
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It was a reminder that the United States is still in the background, warily watching China's incursion into Africa.
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That incursion into China's legislative process is unnecessary to protect American interests, and it is clearly unacceptable to China.
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When he made the announcement, he said it was because Turkey intended to launch an incursion into the area.
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The woman, Karla, was 18 years old and making her first incursion into Zapatista territory to listen to Marichuy's speech.
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In fact, Kurds withstood bombardment to continue guarding the posts in the first days of the Turkish incursion into Syria.
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NATO allies have become alarmed by Russia's incursion into eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea over the past two years.
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By examining ratios of carbon isotopes, the scientists found saltwater incursion into the area, which coincided with the village's abandonment.
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Geir Pedersen raised Turkey's week-old incursion into northeastern Syria in talks in Damascus Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem.
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A spokeswoman for Mr. Ross said early Tuesday that his efforts are now "on hold" after the incursion into Syria.
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Magnifying the Fed's downward impact on longer-term rates was its incursion into the ownership of housing finance-related debt.
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But any incursion into the Baltics or Poland would put the Russian military in immediate contact with multinational NATO troops.
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Turkey is facing significant arms embargoes from its Western partners as a result of its military incursion into northeastern Syria.
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KARKAMIS, Turkey — In recent years, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered plans drawn up for a Turkish military incursion into Syria.
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The attack came two days after Turkey launched an incursion into Syria against Islamic State and Kurdish militia fighters there.
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Since Sunday, the world has expressed outrage over both Trump's decision to pull US forces and Erdogan's incursion into Syria.
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Tahrir al-Sham said "the lions of jihad and martyrdom will be waiting to pounce" against any incursion into Idlib.
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They also expect Trump to bring up Russia's incursion into Ukraine and the allegations of Russian meddling in the election.
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It's just the latest incursion into ambient computing from Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) team, the folks behind Jacquard.
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The Turkish military made its incursion into northeastern Syria shortly after the U.S. announced it would withdraw from the region.
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"We oppose and are greatly disappointed by Turkey's decision to launch a unilateral military incursion into northern Syria," Esper added.
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Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to send troops to Libya, just months after a military incursion into Syria.
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President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order imposing "powerful" sanctions against Turkey for its incursion into northeast Syria.
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Earlier this month, the President decided to have the US exit northern Syria ahead of a Turkish incursion into the area.
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Human DNA found its way into Neanderthals 100,000 years ago, so there must have been an earlier human incursion into Europe.
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The latest battle began with an incursion into Israeli airspace by what the Israeli military says was an Iranian reconnaissance drone.
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Turkey's incursion into Afrin, in northwestern Syria, marks a significant move in its campaign against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
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The Turkish leader clashed with a Republican senator and returned President Trump's pointed letter warning against a military incursion into Syria.
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During the meeting on Monday, Mr. Lavrov said Russia was ready to supply additional evidence proving the Ukrainian incursion into Crimea.
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As human populations grow, our incursion into a variety of habitats expands even as our appetite for certain animals remains unabated.
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As Exxon's chief executive, he maintained close ties with Moscow and opposed U.S. sanctions against Russia for its incursion into Crimea.
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"The question here is of incursion into the territorial waters of the Russian Federation by foreign military vessels," Mr. Peskov said.
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Over the last few days, a number of Silicon Valley companies have been coping with the virus's incursion into their workforces.
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Before his country's incursion into northern Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey voiced a larger ambition: pursuing a nuclear weapon.
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Then, prankster-turned-vlogger Logan Paul showed a blatant disregard for human life in an infamous incursion into Japan's Aokigahara forest.
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In rising up to oppose the Establishment's incursion into Southeast Asia, all of them were paying "The Graduate" the ultimate tribute.
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La Señora — was reportedly organizing an incursion into Acapulco, an area that was once the unquestioned turf of the Beltrán Leyva cartel.
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On Tuesday, 11 members of the Turkish Medical Association's central council were arrested for signing a statement opposing the incursion into Afrin.
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But in December, citing long-standing concerns in Manbij and elsewhere, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly threatened an incursion into Syria.
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Over the last several weeks, US forces began withdrawing from northern Syria, and Turkish military forces launched an incursion into that territory.
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Guven faces up to 31 years in jail on terrorism-related charges over her criticism of Turkey's incursion into Syria's Afrin region.
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Turkey's 10-day-old offensive, its first major incursion into Syria since the war started five years ago, has alarmed the West.
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In his role at Exxon, Tillerson maintained close ties with Putin and opposed U.S. sanctions against Russia for its incursion into Crimea.
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The kidnapping led to an enormous Israeli military incursion into the West Bank; the boys were found dead over two weeks later.
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" He suggested that a similar ethic is guiding his incursion into museums, saying, "It's a moment to rethink how we present things.
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With Turkey's new incursion into the country, she said, the S.D.F. is likely to turn its attention away from its old adversaries.
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"We oppose and are greatly disappointed by Turkey's decision to launch a unilateral military incursion into northern Syria," the Defense secretary said.
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However, it would show much wisdom to withdraw US troops from harm's way and refuse to underwrite Ankara's reckless incursion into Syria.
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The United States and Turkey have reached a deal to temporarily suspend Ankara's incursion into northern Syria, Vice President Pence announced Thursday.
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Poland has been steadily increasing its defense spending, in part due to Warsaw's concerns about Russia following Moscow's military incursion into Ukraine.
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" Macron cited Turkey's incursion into Syria as the justification for his comments that alliance members were experiencing "the brain death of NATO.
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However, we will not accept any Turkish incursion into the areas we have liberated, no matter the words used to describe it.
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The indictment was viewed as a rebuke of Turkey by the Trump administration after Ankara announced an incursion into northeastern Syria on Oct.
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Now, however, the measure has added momentum amid widespread anger at Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria following the U.S. withdrawal from the region.
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"To cross that line was a great honor," Trump said, referring to his brief incursion into the North Korean side of the DMZ.
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Turkey launched a military incursion into northeast Syria last week, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered U.S. troops away from the area.
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The incursion into Kerem Shalom took place during a weekly mass protest in which thousands of Palestinians gathered along the Israel-Gaza border.
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Syria's foreign minister warned on Saturday that Damascus would resist any ground incursion into its territory and send the aggressors home in coffins.
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Turkey launched its first major military incursion into Syria on early September, saying it was aimed at driving out Islamic State militants (IS).
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Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria in August to push Islamic State militants from its border and stop Kurdish fighters gaining ground.
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MOSCOW, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Any incursion into Syrian territory by a foreign power would be illegal, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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Publicly as well, the Russians vehemently condemned Israel's violation of Syrian sovereignty, making no mention of the Iranian drone's incursion into Israeli airspace.
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The Trump administration is set to impose economic sanctions on Turkey, potentially as early as this week, for its incursion into northern Syria.
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"We're pretty convinced that as we work with Turkey, the idea of a Turkish incursion into Syria has gone down substantially," Maier added.
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He said the French government has impeded progress on a potential deal ever since Turkey&aposs military incursion into northern Syria in October.
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Topuz's detention is another factor exacerbating U.S.-Turkish relations, amid pushback over Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria after U.S. forces left the region.
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But the Goths, in turn, were prodded to move against the Romans because of an incursion into Europe of Huns, from central Asia.
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"Russia as you know with their incursion into Ukraine, that's something that has a lot of our allies and partners concerned," Pentagon Spokesman Capt.
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Fears of Russian aggression since its incursion into Ukraine have prompted thousands of ordinary people to join the Estonian Defense League, a volunteer militia.
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President-elect Barack Obama's 2008 transition period witnessed the deadly terror attacks in Mumbai, India, and an Israeli military incursion into the Gaza Strip.
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"We must not forget that this was an incursion into the sovereign territory of Ukraine, Russia annexed Crimea illegally in international law," Hammond said.
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Turkey's incursion into northeast Syria has tested its ties with the United States and could imperil its economy's recovery from last year's currency crisis.
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The statement did not say how many have been killed in total since the start of the Turkish incursion into northeast Syria last week.
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Turkey's incursion into northeast Syria has tested its ties with the United States and could imperil its economy's recovery from last year's currency crisis.
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According to an Axios report, sources close to the White House said Erdogan finally called Trump's bluff and embarked on his incursion into Syria.
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United States citizens are outraged about the Kremlin's incursion into the U.S. electoral system, but that is unfortunately just the tip of the iceberg.
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President Putin's 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and incursion into Eastern Ukraine generated a rally-around-the-flag effect, and revived his presidency.
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"The Saudi-led coalition is supporting the legitimate Yemeni government and defending itself from Houthi incursion into Saudi territory," a State Department official said.
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International money transfer service TransferWise, has made a significant incursion into the US market today, launching a MasterCard debit card alongside a multicurrency account.
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KIEV (Reuters) - A spokesman for Ukrainian defense intelligence denied Russia's accusation on Wednesday that special forces had attempted an armed incursion into Crimean territory.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Monday that Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria was "not exactly" compatible with Syria's territorial integrity.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish forces who launched in incursion into northeast Syria have killed more than 100 militants, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
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Turkey does not appear "as of now" to have begun its expected incursion into northern Syria, a senior Trump administration official said on Monday.
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Mark Milley briefed the Senate and House Armed Services committees Thursday in classified hearings on the events that led to Turkey's incursion into Syria.
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Two years later, after Russia's incursion into Crimea led to sanctions from the European Union and the U.S., Putin declared that offshorization was illegal.
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Vice President Mike Pence called the deal he helped negotiate with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a ceasefire that halts Turkey's incursion into northern Syria.
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"No incursion into UK airspace has ever taken place, and no Russian plane has been forced to land or even change its course," it said.
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Trump issued an executive order on Monday that imposed penalties on three Turkish officials and two ministries for their role in the incursion into Syria.
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The rare incursion into Diraz follows Ayatollah Isa Qassim's sentencing this week to one year in jail suspended for three years on charges of corruption.
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"The world is melting before our eyes," he said, citing Russia's incursion into Ukraine, Syria's civil war, Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen and China's slowing economy.
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Ankara's relationship with the European Union and many of its fellow NATO members has hit a new low following Turkey's military incursion into northeastern Syria.
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Since Turkey started its military incursion into Syria at least 92 people have been killed and a further 200,000 displaced, according to the United Nations.
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Tensions in the southeast had already been heightened since Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria two and half weeks ago dubbed "Operation Euphrates Shield".
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Experts have previously told Insider about the risk of ISIS fighters breaking out of prison amid the chaos of the Turkish incursion into northeast Syria.
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On May 8, "a group of men armed with knives made an incursion into Tche" and burned 21 pineapple fields, according to a UNHCR report.
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They argued Russia had grown more anti-democratic since it was ejected in 2014 for its incursion into Ukraine, disqualifying it from rejoining the G7.
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We're covering Turkey's expected incursion into Syria, the White House's decision not to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, and planned power outages across California today.
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In a joint statement from the foreign ministers, the bloc condemned Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria, agreeing on strong wording despite initial concerns from Britain.
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The latest tensions come after Israel dispatched at least eight planes in response to what it said was an Iranian drone's incursion into its airspace.
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In a joint statement from the foreign ministers, the bloc condemned Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria, agreeing on strong wording despite initial concerns from Britain.
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During their first incursion into the Deep South, as they rode buses through Alabama, the Freedom Riders were met by angry mobs of white people.
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In the weeks before Turkey's incursion into Kurdish-controlled areas in northern Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced his larger ambition: pursuing a nuclear weapon.
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But the debate is back on after he announced U.S. troops would be leaving northeast Syria to avoid a planned Turkish incursion into the area.
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World powers, including Turkey's Western allies, fear its incursion into northeast Syria runs the risk of Islamic State prisoners escaping from camps amid the chaos.
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World powers, including Turkey's Western allies, fear its incursion into northeast Syria runs the risk of Islamic State prisoners escaping from camps amid the chaos.
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The attack comes days after Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria aimed at driving back Islamic State and preventing territorial gains by Kurdish fighters.
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Turkey's incursion into Afrin in northern Syria displaced around 300,000 people, and the militias backed by Turkey seized, looted and destroyed property of Kurdish civilians.
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Ankara launched its first major military incursion into Syria in August, deploying tanks and warplanes to support insurgents it backs in an operation dubbed "Euphrates Shield".
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The tanks would bolster the protection of US troops in eastern Syria "against any incursion" into the area by other forces with tanks or armored units.
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" Trump said Wednesday that Turkey's incursion into northern Syria "has nothing to do with us" and added that former US allies -- the Kurds -- are "not angels.
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The deal also acknowledges some facts on the ground: Turkey will keep control of the areas it has taken in their recent incursion into northern Syria.
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Last year, Turkey launched the Euphrates Shield operation, an incursion into northern Syria alongside Syrian rebel groups to take territory on the frontier from Islamic State.
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Following Saudi Arabia's announcement, Syria's foreign minister said on Saturday Damascus would resist any ground incursion into its territory and send the aggressors home "in coffins".
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Al-Shabab, a Somali group of jihadists linked to al-Qaeda, have claimed responsibility for both attacks; retaliation, they say, for a Kenyan incursion into Somalia.
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The most recent source of tension is the simmering row between Turkey and America over Turkey's incursion into Afrin, a Kurdish enclave in north-west Syria.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Monday that Russia wanted Turkey to ensure its military incursion into northern Syria was proportionate with the situation.
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Indeed, even in the middle of the day, with no smoke to calm them, the bees seem only mildly perturbed by Escalante's incursion into their home.
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Yet when relations with Turkey are at a low ebb because of its incursion into Syria, the energy needed to push back seems to have sapped.
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The Turkish army launched an incursion into Syria in August to push back Islamic State and prevent the U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG militia from seizing ground.
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McKenzie said Turkey's incursion into Syria this month, and the U.S. pullback from the border, was not a factor in deciding the timing of the raid.
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The region was thrown into chaos in the past week, however, by a Turkish incursion into the area designed to confront the armed Kurdish groups there.
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Even since the start of the Turkish incursion into northeastern Syria on October 9, the Russians have achieved significant goals through their presence in the country.
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Pedialyte's incursion into a hangover culture that's already the subject of a three-part Hollywood franchise celebrating alcohol-induced debauchery isn't the crisis of our time.
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US officials have long feared that the SDF would be unable to continue guarding the facilities in the event of a major Turkish incursion into Syria.
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Since the start of Turkey's incursion into Syria, roughly 200,000 people have been displaced and more than 90 civilians killed, according to The New York Times.
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The Turkish government considers the Kurds a threat, and Mr. Erdogan threatened this month to mount a new incursion into northern Syria to tackle the threat.
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The attack comes days after Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria aimed at driving back Islamic State and at preventing territorial gains by Kurdish fighters.
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U.S. officials have long feared that the SDF would be unable to continue guarding the facilities in the event of a major Turkish incursion into Syria.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Turkey does not appear "as of now" to have begun its expected incursion into northern Syria, a senior Trump administration official said on Monday.
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The White House readout did not mention the missile sale or Turkey's incursion into northern Syria, which has been condemned internationally and by members of Congress.
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Republican senators have threatened to sanction Turkey or Erdogan after his incursion into Kurdish Syria, though they have delayed that effort while Erdogan is in town.
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If Obama does choose to impose sanctions, it would add to a list of previous restrictions on Russian individuals and entities enacted following Moscow's incursion into Ukraine.
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The resolution comes amid U.S. tensions with Turkey following Ankara's military incursion into northern Syria after the Trump administration pulled troops from the area earlier this month.
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The Turkish lira steadied off seven-week lows as U.S. President Donald Trump's sanctions for Turkey's military incursion into Syria were perceived to be lighter than expected.
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But the revelation that Kushner spoke with executives from a Russian bank sanctioned by the U.S. for its role in Russia's incursion into Ukraine has raised questions.
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Trump seeks incursion into Clinton territoryTrump's path to victory would widen significantly if he can pull off a surprise victory in a blue state on Election Day.
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A so-called master plan to link Addis Ababa with neighboring towns in Oromia, which protesters saw as an incursion into Oromo territory, was canceled in January.
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They vowed to avenge federal shootouts at Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, which they saw as proof of egregious government incursion into the lives of ordinary citizens.
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Trump's October 6 withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria has paved the way for a Turkish incursion into the area, which is rapidly reshaping the territory.
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Ultimately, Trump imposed US sanctions on Turkey on Monday in response to the country's military incursion into northern Syria that it had long threatened to carry out.
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An alleged incursion into South Korea's airspace on Tuesday was down to a "device malfunction" from its aircraft, Russian officials reportedly said to the South Korean government.
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Among those present were five Republican senators, including Senator Lindsey Graham — a vocal critic of Turkey's incursion into Northern Syria, sources familiar with the meeting told Axios.
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It's not entirely clear what he meant, but there had been multiple reports noting that the Turkish incursion into Syria allowed hundreds of ISIS prisoners to escape.
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Clinton is relying on star power provided by LeBron James, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Katy Perry and others, while Trump forges ahead with his incursion into blue states.
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The Pentagon's message: The Pentagon insisted the United States is not endorsing a Turkish incursion into northern Syria, despite the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the area.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain called for restraint on Thursday after Turkey's military incursion into Syria, warning that the move risked humanitarian suffering and undermining the fight against militants.
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The Pentagon insisted Monday that the United States is not endorsing an impending Turkish incursion into northern Syria, despite the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the area.
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The extensive area of Ankara's planned incursion into Syria could lead to months of military activity that raises concern in the markets, said one bank treasury trader.
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The U.S.-Turkey relationship is on rocky footing following a Turkish incursion into northern Syria apparently prompted by Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops from the area.
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In particular, there is concern that the Turkish Syrian border has again become porous in recent weeks since Turkish forces began conducting their incursion into northern Syria.
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The measure itself would go beyond the S-400 issue and include Turkey's incursion into Syria and operations targeting America's Kurdish partners in the fight against ISIS.
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Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), the third-ranking Republican in the House, criticized the president's move, especially after Turkish forces began an incursion into northern Syria on Wednesday.
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Erdogan and Macron agreed to stay in close communication regarding efforts to solve the Syrian issue and exchanged information on the Turkish incursion into northern Syria, sources said.
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Mexico then made a lightning start with the fastest goal of the tournament so far in their first incursion into the Uruguay penalty area in the fourth minute.
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Trump directed the high-profile delegation that includes Pence, Pompeo and national security adviser Robert O'Brien to broker a ceasefire with Ankara amid the Turkish incursion into Syria.
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And he said it echoed his own in-person conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month, which he said centered on corruption and Russia's incursion into Crimea.
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Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and launched an incursion into Syria in August to drive the radical Sunni militants from its borders.
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Turkey's incursion into Syria: Turkey's "Operation Euphrates Shield" campaign against ISIS along the Turkey-Syria border has seen the militants pushed out of the Syrian town of Jarablus.
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Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a strong leader, despite Russia's military incursion into US ally Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea, which triggered Western sanctions.
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Those isolationist movements threaten Obama's attempts to press European countries into more robust action against Russia, for its incursion into Ukraine, and against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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RIYADH, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Monday that Russia wanted Turkey to ensure its military incursion into northern Syria was proportionate with the situation.
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Kobani said the agreement is "just the beginning" and will not be able to achieve the goals of Turkey, which launched an incursion into northern Syria last week.
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The deal was being discussed previously, but talks were halted after the U.S. placed sanctions on Turkey in response to the Turkish incursion into northern Syria last month.
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The deal was being discussed perviously, but talks were halted after the U.S. placed sanctions on Turkey in response to the Turkish incursion into northern Syria last month.
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Turkey launched the incursion into northern Syria more than six months ago to push Islamic State fighters away from its border and stop the advance of Kurdish fighters.
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After Ankara's relations with Moscow deteriorated, a Turkish incursion into Syria could have risked war with Russia, which has been bombing rebels in support of the Syrian government.
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The suspect was upset, in his words, with the "incursion into Gaza," the source said, but did not elaborate on what incursion he may have been alluding to.
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The Turkish military, along with forces from the Syrian National Army, have mounted Operation Peace Spring, an incursion into territory controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
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The announcement paved the way for a major Turkish incursion into Kurdish territory and has allowed Turkish troops to overtake the key border town of Ras al-Ayn.
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While the Turkish military incursion into Afrin has seized the world's attention, American, NATO and Turkish officials have directed their eyes east, to the strategic city of Manbij.
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If Karagul and other like-minded Erdogan enthusiasts have their way, Turkey's recent incursion into Syria would be just the start of a larger, and distinctly imperial, project.
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With China's economic clout — and its corporate incursion into FIFA's highest ranks — most experts believe the World Cup will inevitably come to China, perhaps as early as 2030.
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Also on Sunday, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, traveled to Jordan to meet the Jordanian king for discussions about the Turkish incursion into Syria and other regional challenges.
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Baghdad would not look kindly on a Turkish incursion into its territory, which it would see as a provocative act and a disruption of its fight against ISIS.
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Trump met with Democratic and Republican leaders at the White House to discuss Turkey's incursion into northern Syria following his decision to pull U.S. forces from the area.
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An incursion into northern Syria may have helped distract from his domestic troubles, including a struggling economy and backlash to the thousands of Syrian refugees within the country.
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The defense chief also said Kurdish troops are recapturing ISIS members who escaped from Kurdish-run prisons in the northeast since the start of Turkey's incursion into Syria.
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But the Senate has struggled to make any substantial headway in condemning the Turkish government for its incursion into Syria and to convince the president to reverse course.
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After his speech in Parliament, Mr. Erdogan told reporters that an incursion into Syria might happen "at any moment after the Bolton meetings," the news channel NTV reported.
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This creeping incursion into a free press is fast turning into open season on the media -- and that's just fine in the eyes of politicians like Trump and May.
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Turkey has revealed little about the strategy behind its first major incursion into Syria, beyond saying it wants to drive Islamic State and Kurdish fighters away from the border.
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Le Drian said earlier on Sunday that France had called for an emergency meeting of the Security Council over Syria following a Turkish incursion into northern Syria's Afrin province.
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On Sunday night in a stunning statement, Trump announced that the long awaited Turkish incursion into northeastern Syria would start and that US troops would leave the immediate area.
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"These instances of incursion into Bangladesh air space by Myanmar helicopters run contrary to the good neighborly relations and could lead to unwarranted situation," said the foreign ministry statement.
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But since Turkey launched its incursion into the Kurdish-controlled region of Syria last week, the organization's staff and volunteers have been at the forefront of the emergency response.
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But that could also mean that some people could be forced to pay higher rates, and the distribution of customer data could be another major incursion into users' privacy.
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It launched its first major military incursion into Syria last month to push the jihadists away from its border and prevent Kurdish fighters from seizing territory as they retreated.
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U.S.-backed fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have since returned to eastern Syria following Turkey's incursion into northwest Syria, drawing Kurdish fighters from the fight against ISIS.
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His visit also comes after Turkey launched its incursion into Syria last month, a military operation that has seen Turkey-backed rebels sweep Islamic State from the Syrian border.
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The paper said the stock has an attractive valuation after it fell on an earnings miss, an analyst downgrade, and concerns over an incursion into its space by Amazon.
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But U.S. sanctions against Russia for its incursion into Crimea cost Exxon Mobil dearly, forcing it to scrap some projects and costing it at least $1 billion in losses.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed in a phone call on Tuesday Turkey's incursion into northwest Syria, Turkey's state news agency Anadolu said.
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Since then, the administration has taken some steps to comply with the law, including updating an existing set of Treasury sanctions on Russia related to its incursion into Ukraine.
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Turkey's vice president says his country won't bow to threats in an apparent response to Trump's warning to Ankara about the scope of its planned military incursion into Syria.
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In 2017, the Turkish leader went so far as to threaten the United States with an "Ottoman slap" if it tried to block a Turkish military incursion into Syria.
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Terra Group has a track record of 203 years with investments in El Salvador since 2008, but this will be its first incursion into the financial and insurance sector.
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The Turkish incursion into northern Syria is dominating the news, but an incident in the Red Sea on Friday morning could turn out to be of equal geostrategic significance.
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Leyla Guven still faces trial and up to 31 years' jail over charges of terrorism leadership and propaganda for her opposition to Turkey's incursion into northwest Syria's Afrin region.
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Turkey began airstrikes against the Kurdish YPG on Saturday, followed by a ground incursion into northern Syria involving Turkish special forces and factions of the rebel Free Syrian Army.
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The stated objective of Turkey's incursion into northern Syria is to carve out a "safe zone" to resettle many of the 3.6 million Syrian war refugees it is hosting.
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Politically, there was a general assumption that Russia was a growing problem, evidenced by its annexation of Crimea, incursion into eastern Ukraine and "frozen wars" on its other borders.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok on Wednesday said he had summoned the Turkish ambassador after Ankara launched a military incursion into Syria, he said in a statement.
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LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Britain called for restraint on Thursday after Turkey's military incursion into Syria, warning that the move risked humanitarian suffering and underming the fight against militants.
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The incursion into the Russian electric power grid seems to have been conducted under new legal authorities in the military authorization bill passed by Congress last year, the Times reports.
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Ties between the NATO allies have become fraught over Turkey's incursion into Syria against the YPG militia, after President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Any incursion into Syrian territory by a foreign power would be illegal, Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday, in a statement clearly designed to be heard in Turkey.
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The operation, which would mark the third Turkish incursion into Syria in as many years, was first signaled by President Tayyip Erdogan earlier this year but later put on hold.
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RIYADH/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin complained on Monday that Turkey's incursion into northern Syria was "not exactly" compatible with Syrian territorial integrity, and Ankara should ensure its actions were proportionate.
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Turkey, which launched its first major military incursion into Syria two and half weeks ago, said a cessation of fighting and the provision of aid around Aleppo was particularly key.
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Trump's decision to green light a Turkish military incursion into northern Syria, a decision that would leave the US's Kurdish allies vulnerable to attack, apparently took Pentagon officials by surprise.
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At present, the US and Turkey are setting up a base of operations to establish a future "safe zone" and to ostensibly prevent a threatened Turkish incursion into northern Syria.
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But since the limited incursion into Afrin at the beginning of this year, the Turkish military has been more preoccupied with guarding the ceasefire in the Syrian province of Idlib.
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In fact, Turkey was already facing possible US sanctions even before its military incursion into northeastern Syria due to its purchase of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems.
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The discussions come amid Turkey's military incursion into the region, which was effectively given the green light by President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw 1,000 US troops earlier this month.
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It took place in the summer of 2014, during a bloody Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip designed to prevent Hamas militants there from continuing to rocket Israeli border towns.
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ISTANBUL — The Turkish president is threatening to mount a new incursion into northern Syria, accusing the United States of failing to tackle the security threats Turkey faces in the region.
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In response to Israeli incursion into Gaza, Hamas and its allies have been firing off mortar shells at Israeli troops, though no soldiers have yet been injured in the attacks.
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The withdrawal precipitated Turkey's incursion into the border zone earlier this month, which has left more than 120 civilians dead, according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Although the president-elect has said that he doubted the usefulness of the United States-led sanctions against Russia for its incursion into Ukraine, Mr. Tillerson took the opposite view.
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The indictment coincided with the White House response imposing sanctions on Turkey for its incursion into northeastern Syria against Kurdish forces allied with the U.S. in the fight against ISIS.
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KIEV (Reuters) - The United States has seen nothing so far that corroborates Russian allegations of a Ukrainian incursion into Crimea, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, said on Thursday.
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The Turkish military launched a military incursion into Syria last year aimed at blocking further expansion of Kurdish control in an area of northern Syria known in Kurdish as Rojava.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran on Sunday called for a quick end to a Turkish incursion into northern Syria's Afrin province, saying it may help "terrorist" groups, state news agency IRNA reported.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the incursion into Syria is aimed at clearing a "safe zone" along the border to resettle some two million Syrian refugees currently hosted in Turkey.
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Israel, the U.S.' closest regional ally, regards Hezbollah as the biggest threat on its borders and launched a military incursion into Lebanon in 2006 in a failed bid to destroy it.
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In recent weeks, however, leaked intelligence has suggested Caro Quintero is actually now heading an incursion into Sinaloa cartel territory having teamed up with another cartel, known as the Beltrán Leyva.
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Saudi Arabia and the United States claim the Houthis are backed by Iran, and the Saudis see the expansion of Houthi power in Yemen as an Iranian incursion into their backyard.
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National security adviser Robert O'Brien on Sunday defended the U.S. response to Turkey's incursion into northern Syria, adding that the Trump administration is "very upset" about Ankara's purchase of Russian missiles.
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Turkey's incursion into Syrian territory is part of a larger effort to battle not only ISIS, but also Kurdish fighters in northern Syria that Ankara opposes, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
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Ankara's operation "Euphrates Shield", launched last year as an incursion into Syria to support rebel groups there, has focused on driving both Islamic State and the YPG away from the border.
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Editorial The Turkish military incursion into Syria that started Wednesday with American air support is about as good an illustration as there is of the exasperating complexity of Washington's foreign affairs.
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His remarks came shortly after President Donald Trump said his predecessor, President Barack Obama, was responsible for Putin's actions in Ukraine, including Moscow's 2014 military incursion into and annexation of Crimea.
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Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and launched an incursion into neighbouring Syria in August to drive jihadists and Kurdish militia fighters away from its borders.
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Op-Ed Contributor WASHINGTON — One might wonder how a country that recently survived a bloody coup attempt and multiple terrorist attacks could embark on a military incursion into a neighboring country.
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After Russia's incursion into Ukraine in 2014, Obama came under fire from the GOP for using targeted sanctions that didn't go after Putin himself and refraining from providing Ukraine with weapons.
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Turkey has warned it will act alone if the safe zone is not established this month, raising the prospect of a third Turkish military incursion into northern Syria in three years.
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If the Turkish incursion into Syria breaks the power of the Kurdish force, some military officials believe the Islamic State could once again find lawless safe havens from which to rebuild.
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News Analysis President Trump's surprise acquiescence to a Turkish incursion into northern Syria this week has shaken American allies, and not just because it was a betrayal of a loyal partner.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday said Ankara's military incursion into northeastern Syria was damaging U.S.-Turkey relations, adding that the United States was not abandoning its Kurdish partners.
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More than 800 suspected IS detainees escaped the Ayn Issa camp in northern Syria on Sunday, Kurdish forces said in a statement, five days into Turkey's military incursion into norther Syria.
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A friend told me that her strategy, when she made an incursion into private facilities, was to say that she was pregnant, at which point businesses almost assuredly became more sympathetic.
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If the Chinese incursion into Silicon Valley raises questions of intellectual property theft, protectionist regulation, and geopolitical competition, the Saudi spending spree raises questions of ethics, equality, and basic human rights.
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Executives including Mercedes Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche have taken to appearing in jeans and sneakers, responding to a broader tech-industry incursion into areas such as autonomous driving and connected services.
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The U.S. military withdrawal and Turkey's subsequent incursion into northeastern Syria have reordered the country, helping four American adversaries in particular: ■ President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who has expanded his control.
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On the outskirts, Syrian government forces have recently been deployed at the request of Kurdish authorities, who hope that a regime presence will help stave off a Turkish incursion into population centers.
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The U.S. military withdrawal and Turkey's subsequent incursion into northeastern Syria have reordered the country, helping four American adversaries in particular: ■ President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who has expanded his control.
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The U.S. military withdrawal and Turkey's subsequent incursion into northeastern Syria have reordered the country, helping four American adversaries in particular: President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who has expanded his control.
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Kurdish fury across the Middle East has grown since Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria on October 9, a move which paved the way for Turkey's incursion into the country.
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Al-Shabab, a Somali militant outfit linked to al-Qaeda, have claimed the credit for both attacks; retaliation, they say, for a Kenyan military incursion into Somalia to root out the jihadists.
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In both interviews, however, the legendary narco figures — who were both born and raised in the same mountain municipality of Badiraguato — explained their incursion into the business as a response to poverty.
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In an interview, the head of the newly opened Syrian-Kurdish representation to Moscow, Rodi Osman, warned that any Turkish incursion into Syria would result in a "great war" with his hosts.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's Kurdish YPG militia said Turkish forces fired at their fighters along the border on Monday, wounding one fighter, hundreds of miles east of Turkey's main incursion into northern Syria.
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House Republicans have put their weight behind bipartisan legislation imposing sanctions on Turkey for its incursion into northeastern Syria and calling for detailed reports on Erdoğan's finances and that of his family.
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Since Turkey launched a military incursion into northeastern Syria in early October, traders have said that state banks have sold dollars at certain times to cushion a depreciation in the Turkish lira.
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Thousands of ISIS prisoners being guarded in Syria are under guard by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which the US just abandoned in the face of a Turkish incursion into northeast Syria.
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Tensions between the U.S. and Turkey soared last month when Ankara launched a military incursion into Kurdish enclaves in northern Syria, raising concern about a possible confrontation between American and Turkish forces.
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"Typhoon fighters ... were scrambled today as a precautionary measure against a potential incursion into UK area of interest by one or more unidentified aircraft," a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said.
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MONZA, Italy (Reuters) - The louder the booing, the more Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton is likely to be smiling after the Mercedes driver's annual incursion into Ferrari's home territory on Sunday.
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Yesterday: After essentially greenlighting Turkey's incursion into Syria, Mr. Trump urged an immediate cease-fire during a phone call with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to Vice President Mike Pence.
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Last December, Mr. Trump stunned his own national security team by abruptly deciding to pull American troops out of Syria, clearing the way for Mr. Erdogan's long-sought incursion into the country.
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The U.S. imposed sanctions on Turkey last week following the country's incursion into Syria's northern border area, which has been occupied by Kurdish allies in America's fight against the Islamic State group.
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Turkey's lira slid more than 2% to its lowest level in more than a month against the dollar on Monday over concerns about the planned incursion into northern Syria and Trump's warning.
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We were very focused on making sure that we provided the defensive weapon systems that the Ukrainian people needed to defend themselves against Vladimir Putin's incursion into the Donbass, into Southeast Ukraine.
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Turkey's incursion into Syria to create a so-called safe zone within 20 miles of the border cuts through so many layers of history that it is difficult to summarize its importance.
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But the third and final stage of that election was postponed indefinitely after Turkey launched an incursion into the Kurdish Afrin region of northwest Syria, a leading Kurdish politician told Reuters last month.
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Simple, but likely beyond Trump's reach to give: recognition of Putin's suzerainty in Syria, sanctions lifted over his seizure of Crimea and incursion into Ukraine, and NATO to step away from Russia's border.
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Richard Parker, head of air traffic management technology firm Altitude Angel, said this was the first time a major airport had been hit by such a sustained and deliberate incursion into its airspace.
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Despite their similarities, Renzi hasn't been an entirely consistent ally for Obama, hesitating to enact tougher sanctions on Russia for its incursion into Ukraine as his country remains dependent on Moscow for oil.
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Kurdish groups have accused Turkey and the rebels of a policy of resettling people from other parts of Syria into homes seized from Kurds who fled the Turkish incursion into Afrin in February.
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Turkey's military incursion into Syria to attack Kurdish forces, launched after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled American troops out of the way, caught NATO's strongest European powers - France, Germany and Britain - by surprise.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Thursday there was "great news out of Turkey" after a U.S. delegation held talks in Ankara over Turkey's military incursion into northeast Syria.
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LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Turkey's sovereign dollar-denominated bonds rallied on Tuesday after Washington imposed lighter-than-expected sanctions over Ankara's military incursion into Syria with the lira also strengthening against the dollar.
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Accordingly, Turkey's incursion into northern Syria to combat IS, clear its border and prevent further gains by Syrian Kurds is yet another sign that peace talks are more an abstract than a reality.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama's administration said Tuesday it was seeking to expand U.S. military spending in Europe four-fold in a bid to reassure allies still unsettled by Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
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It draws on the many months he spent in the occupied West Bank, off and on, from the time of the Arab spring in 2011 to Israel's bloody incursion into Gaza in 2014.
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Basel-based BIS, a central bank umbrella group, has already called on politicians to closely scrutinize Big Tech's incursion into finance, a move that raises questions about data privacy, competition, markets and banking.
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Cohen cited a 2017 incident, when several of Erdoğan's bodyguards assaulted protesters in Washington, D.C., and the recent Turkish incursion into Syria as reasons why he believes U.S. sentiment toward Turkey is changing.
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Turkish troops launched a military incursion into war-torn Syria earlier this month, a move that was effectively given the green light by Trump's decision to remove 1,000 US troops from the region.
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In 2014, the Chinese parked a state-owned oil rig off Danang, where Mr. Trump attended the APEC summit meeting on Friday, in a forceful incursion into what Hanoi considers its territorial waters.
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The White House powwow would come two days after Trump announced that he was implementing financial penalties on Turkey over its military incursion into northern Syria, ratcheting up tariffs and pausing trade talks.
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A sale would see Borsa Istanbul's only major foreign owner depart just as Turkey's relations with the West are strained by its military incursion into northeastern Syria, which drew international condemnation this month.
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Turkey, which hosts 3.6 million Syrian refugees, threatened to "open the gates" to allow those already in the country to head for Europe if the EU portrayed Turkey's incursion into northeast Syria negatively.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that Turkey's incursion into northern Syria was violating Syria's territorial integrity, the Interfax news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov as saying.
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Ankara's incursion into Syria, dubbed Operation Peace Spring, is the latest strain on its relationship with NATO ally Washington, despite what Erdogan has called "a different kind of trust" between him and Trump.
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Basel-based BIS, a central bank umbrella group, has already called on politicians to closely scrutinise Big Tech's incursion into finance, a move that raises questions about data privacy, competition, markets and banking.
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Laird publicly supported Nixon's Vietnam policies but privately opposed the president's 1970 incursion into Cambodia against North Vietnamese sanctuaries and the 1972 resumption of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam and mining of its harbors.
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It comes days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched the incursion into Syria to drive Kurdish forces away from the border and to use the area to resettle around 2 million Syrian refugees.
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NATO member Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and launched an incursion into Syria last August to drive the jihadist group and Kurdish militia fighters away from its borders.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday he will meet with NATO allies next week to press them to take "diplomatic and economic measures" in response to Turkey's incursion into Syria.
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But its incursion into a rare disease with a first-of-its-kind drug that doctors are still trying to understand also brings challenges, including intense scrutiny from the community of 20,000 U.S. patients.
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Trump has displayed a more conciliatory attitude toward Russia in recent weeks, including urging G7 leaders in Canada to reinstate Putin in their group after he was expelled for Russia's 2014 incursion into Ukraine.
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Chicago (CNN)Russia's successful incursion into the 2016 presidential election has opened a new, menacing phase in cyberwarfare and is a harbinger of attacks to come, says President Barack Obama's former top counterterrorism adviser.
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He was a colonel at the Interior Ministry who was sometimes known as El Tuerto, or One-Eye; rumors held that he had lost vision in one eye during Cuba's military incursion into Angola.
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The crackdown picked up pace after the start of a military incursion into Syria last month, with authorities detaining some 600 people so far for protesting the incursion or criticizing it on social media.
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Turkey launched its first major military incursion into Syria three weeks ago to try to push back Islamic State militants from its border and prevent Kurdish militia fighters from gaining ground in their wake.
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Since the coup attempt, Turkey has launched a military incursion into Syria to clear Islamic State militants from its border, and stepped up its campaign against Kurdish militants in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
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She drew criticism in October for voting against a House resolution affirming the U.S. recognition of the Armenian genocide, which was widely seen as a rebuke of Turkey following its incursion into northeastern Syria.
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He added that their situation had significantly worsened due to the Turkish incursion into Syria and the possibility of Syrian forces taking control of the camps which were controlled by the Kurds until now.
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Trump has called the Turkish assault a "bad idea," said he did not endorse it, and threatened to devastate the NATO ally's economy if Ankara's incursion into Syria wipes out the Kurdish population there.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - A planned Turkish incursion into northeast Syria has not begun, but final preparations are being made and the deployment of troops and equipment has been completed, Turkish officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
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NATO member Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State and it launched an incursion into Syria in August to drive the jihadist group and Kurdish militia fighters away from its borders.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's week-long incursion into northern Syria aims to clear Islamic State fighters from a 90 km (56-mile) stretch of territory along the Turkish border, President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Wednesday.
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While some officials -- including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and UN ambassador Nikki Haley -- have insisted that US sanctions will remain in place on Russia for its incursion into Ukraine, others have been less committal.
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Turkey's incursion into Syria has targeted a 100 km (60 mile) stretch of territory between the two main Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria, obstructing plans to link up territory known in Kurdish as Rojava.
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NATO member Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and launched an incursion into neighboring Syria in August to drive the Sunni militants, and Kurdish militia fighters, away from its borders.
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Four U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on the condition their names not be used, claimed that the suspension of the program is in response to Turkey's cross-border military incursion into Syria in October.
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But Turkey has said a military incursion into Syria to battle the YPG is imminent; on Wednesday the Pentagon warned that such a unilateral incursion would be "unacceptable," given the presence of American personnel there.
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Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes entered one of Islamic State's last strongholds on the Turkish-Syrian border on Wednesday, in Turkey's first major U.S.-backed incursion into its southern neighbor.
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ANKARA, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Turkey's lira was flat on Thursday, as banks squeezed offshore swap markets to support the currency before an expected meeting between U.S. and Turkish officials over Ankara's military incursion into Syria.
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MOSCOW, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that Turkey's incursion into northern Syria was violating Syria's territorial integrity, the Interfax news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov as saying.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel expressed deep concern at Turkey's incursion into northern Syria and agreed to stay in close contact in a call on Tuesday, Johnson's spokesman said.
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Cruz forces had planned an incursion into Florida as part of an effort to deny Rubio the 99 delegates he needs in his home state to argue he has a viable path to the nomination.
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A prosecutor this week ordered the detention of 11 senior members of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), including its chairman, after the organisation criticised the incursion into Syria's Afrin, saying "No to war, peace immediately".
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The resolution drew widespread bipartisan support in the House, passing with a vote of 405 to 11, and was brought to a vote alongside Democratic efforts to sanction Turkey for its incursion into northeastern Syria.
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Turkey launched its third military incursion into northeast Syria last month to drive Kurdish YPG fighters from its border and establish a "safe zone" where it aims to settle up to 22016 million Syrian refugees.
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He said it was clear that Turkey's military incursion into Syria, launched in August, had annoyed terror groups and those behind them, but said the offensive would continue until all threats to Turkey were removed.
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Turkey launched its third military incursion into northeast Syria last month to drive Kurdish YPG fighters from its border and establish a "safe zone" where it aims to settle up to 22016 million Syrian refugees.
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" The global economy watchdog had earlier made an unusual incursion into a national political issue on April 12 when it said a Brexit could "do severe regional and global damage by disrupting established trading relationships.
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Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper called his Turkish counterpart on Thursday to stress that Washington opposes the incursion into Syria, and Mr. Trump talked of brokering some form of peace between Turkey and the Kurds.
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NATIONALIST BACKLASH Ankara's incursion into Syria, dubbed Operation Peace Spring, is the latest strain on its relationship with NATO ally Washington, despite what Erdogan has called "a different kind of trust" between him and Trump.
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NATIONALIST BACKLASH Ankara's incursion into Syria, dubbed Operation Peace Spring, is the latest strain on its relationship with NATO ally Washington, despite what Erdogan has called "a different kind of trust" between him and Trump.
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A prosecutor this week ordered the detention of 11 senior members of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), including its chairman, after the organization criticized the incursion into Syria's Afrin, saying "No to war, peace immediately".
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to introduce legislation on Wednesday that will impose sanctions on Turkey in response to Ankara's incursion into Syria, Representative Liz Cheney told reporters on Wednesday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran offered on Saturday to engage Syrian Kurds, Syria's government and Turkey in talks to establish security along the Turkish-Syrian border following Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria to fight Kurdish forces.
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The White House is set to impose economic sanctions on Ankara, as early as this week, for its incursion into northern Syria, one of the few levers the U.S. still has over NATO-ally Turkey.
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But coming just months after Turkey's third military incursion into Syria, it expands Turkey's military footprint in a volatile region and, analysts say, offers new evidence of its growing self-confidence as a regional power.
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That's because part of Turkey's rationale for launching the incursion into Syria was to create a "safe zone" it could send many of those millions of refugees back to — thus getting them out of Turkey.
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Turkey launched an incursion into Syria in August, sending in warplanes, tanks and special forces in support of largely Turkmen and Arab rebels, to try to drive Islamic State and Kurdish militants away from its border.
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Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria shortly after the wedding attack in a bid to push the radical jihadist group away from its border and prevent Kurdish militia fighters from gaining ground in their wake.
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MOSCOW/ANKARA (Reuters) - Russia sent about 300 more military police and more than 20 armored vehicles to Syria on Friday under an accord between Ankara and Moscow that has halted Turkey's military incursion into northeast Syria.
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The strong rebuke in the White House East Room came after Trump's criticism of the family of a slain Muslim US soldier, along with comments that displayed apparent confusion related to the Russian incursion into Ukraine.
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Growing Kurdish influence in northern Syria largely explains why Turkey launched a major incursion into Syria last year, helping insurgents from the Free Syrian Army drive both Islamic State and Kurdish militia away from the border.
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The international aid agency, which had been delivering aid to northeast Syria since 2014, said it was providing civilians with fresh water and other basic needs since Turkey launched an incursion into the region last week.
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In 2016 Turkey launched a military incursion into northern Syria to drive back IS fighters from the border, and it has built a wall along its 911-km (566-mile) frontier to try to halt infiltration.
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"The Nigerian troops have successfully repelled an attack by Boko Haram terrorists who attempted an incursion into (the) 113 Battalion," army spokesman Sani Usman said in a statement carried by PR Nigeria, which releases government statements.
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The Polish imprint of the fashion magazine joined Vogue Russia (launched in 1998) and Vogue Ukraine (2013) as the brand's newest incursion into the East European market (Vogue Czech Republic and Slovakia later debuted in August).
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Despite many offensives, peace conferences and foreign interventions, including this week's Turkish incursion into a border town, the only needle that ever seems to move is the one measuring the suffering of Syrians — which only worsens.
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President Obama should have acted at the first evidence of Russia's military incursion into Ukraine, and even Trump's aid is a small step compared to President Bush's 2008 proposal to move Kiev quickly toward NATO membership.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will "thwart games" along its border, starting with Syria's Manbij region, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, as the Turkish military entered the fifth day of its incursion into northern Syria's Afrin region.
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Lawmakers in both parties and in both chambers of Congress have shown support for imposing sanctions on Turkey in response to its incursion into northern Syria, which threatens the U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in the region.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will take penalizing action against Turkey if it engages in any "inhumane and disproportionate" moves against civilians during its incursion into northeastern Syria, a senior State Department official said on Thursday.
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BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - One casualty of Turkey's military incursion into Syria may be its own recovery from recession after U.S. congressional leaders threatened sanctions that could hit the lira and harden Turkish distrust of Western allies.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan delivered a fiery defense of Turkey's military incursion into northeast Syria on Thursday, dismissing a chorus of global criticism and threatening to send more than 3 million Syrian refugees into Europe.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has the strength necessary to eliminate terrorism at its source, with or without support from its allies, a Turkish senior official told Reuters on Monday ahead of an expected Turkish incursion into Syria.
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ANKARA, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned on Thursday that Turkey would retaliate if the United States imposed sanctions over its military incursion into northeast Syria, which is targeting Kurdish fighters backed by Washington.
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Outraged by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's incursion into northern Syria in October and his purchase of a Russian missile defense system, the Foreign Relations Committee mobilized this week to advance a package of sanctions targeting Turkey.
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Ankara launched an incursion into Syria, "Operation Euphrates Shield", in August to push Islamic State out of a 90-km (55-mile) stretch of frontier territory and prevent Kurdish groups from seizing ground in their wake.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France has called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council over Syria following a Turkish incursion into northern Syria's Afrin province, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sunday.
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The measures, from 2014-2016, targeted Russia's financial services, energy, defense and other industries in retaliation for its annexation of Crimea and incursion into Ukraine, as well as cyber-attacks and election interference in the United States.
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Washington (CNN)A high-level American delegation tasked with brokering a ceasefire amid the Turkish incursion into Syria landed in Turkey Thursday morning to negotiate, but President Donald Trump's recent comments have undercut their mandate, critics say.
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LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel expressed deep concern at Turkey's incursion into northern Syria and agreed to stay in close contact in a call on Tuesday, Johnson's spokesman said.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police detained four mayors from a pro-Kurdish party in dawn raids, widening a crackdown since Ankara launched an incursion into northern Syria a week ago, state media and the party said on Tuesday.
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Ankara launched an incursion into Syria, "Operation Euphrates Shield", in August to push Islamic State out of a 90-km (55-mile) stretch of frontier territory and ensure Kurdish militias did not gain more territory in Syria.
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Muslim and other Syrian Kurdish politicians have accused Turkey of supporting Islamic State, something Ankara vehemently denies, and say its incursion into areas held by the jihadist group is aimed at preventing a wider assault on it.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In the three and half months since a failed military coup, Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 110,000 people, launched a military incursion into Syria, and repeatedly threatened to do the same in Iraq.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threw a letter from US President Donald Trump warning him of the consequences of his military incursion into Syria "in the bin," the BBC reported on Thursday, citing unnamed Turkish government sources.
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The official added that if Turkey were to go ahead with the incursion into Syria, it was expected to trigger a large combat response from the SDF, and US troops would almost certainly withdraw completely from Syria.
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Turkey launched its first major military incursion into Syria just over two weeks ago in a bid to push Islamic State back from its border and prevent Syrian Kurdish militia fighters from seizing territory in their wake.
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The European Union also passed its own set of sanctions on Russia following its incursion into Ukraine, but the EU's sanctions automatically expire every six months if they're not renewed by all 28 European Union member states.
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President Trump said on Monday that he was imposing sanctions on Turkish government agencies and officials in response to Turkey's incursion into Syria, an invasion that he himself had cleared the way for by withdrawing American troops.
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Mr. Trump's order for the troop withdrawal from northern Syria opened the door for a Turkish incursion into the region and deadly clashes with Kurdish fighters, until Vice President Mike Pence brokered a cease-fire last week.
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Mnuchin said Pompeo and Pence would discuss with Erdogan the additional sanctions facing Turkey unless Ankara instituted a ceasefire, and said Trump had made it very clear that he expected Turkey to stop its incursion into Syria.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to introduce legislation on Wednesday that will impose sanctions on Turkey in response to Ankara's incursion into Syria, Representative Liz Cheney told reporters on Wednesday.
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The Turkish incursion into Syria is almost certain to be a tragedy for the region's vulnerable minorities, but the chain of events it is liable to set into motion are far easier to dread than accurately foresee.
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The Kremlin has been seeking to expand its ties with China, especially since the West imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Moscow to punish it for the annexation of Crimea and an incursion into east Ukraine in 2014.
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Even as the Trump administration maintains publicly that it will keep in place sanctions on Russia over its incursion into Ukraine, White House officials, including Flynn, are offering less committal signals behind closed doors, according to these sources.
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Turkey launched its long-threatened incursion into Syria after President Donald Trump ordered a small contingent of about 50 US troops to be pulled back from the border area amid a belief that a Turkish incursion was imminent.
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"The Turkish incursion into northeast Syria is a tragedy, it was long standing US government policy in two Administrations to keep that from happening and we were clearly not successful," Jeffrey told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday.
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Margins are unlikely to improve soon given Amazon's incursion into the market (having committed $5bn to India, it probably ranks a close second to Flipkart, which is thought to account for just under half of India's online sales).
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Turkey launched a military incursion into northern Syria in August in large part to prevent the YPG from gaining further ground and linking Kurdish regions in northeastern Syria with a pocket of Kurdish-controlled territory in northwestern Syria.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is poised to move about 1,000 U.S. troops from northern Syria amid an ongoing Turkish incursion into the region, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Sunday, calling the situation "untenable" for U.S. forces.
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KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) - The Turkish military shelled a group of Syrian Kurdish fighters south of the town of Jarablus on Thursday, a Turkish security source said, a day after Turkey launched its first U.S.-backed incursion into Syria.
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A bipartisan duo is in the process of drafting legislation that would sanction Turkey's political and military leadership for the incursion into northeast Syria and keep those sanctions in place as long as Ankara remains in the area.
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Mayer's summary of the Steele dossier and how it fits into the intelligence surrounding Russia's incursion into the election paints a clear picture of why voters should have seen both cards on the table, or none at all.
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Ankara wants to prevent Syria's Kurds from gaining autonomy and fuelling Kurdish insurgents on its soil and last month launched a military incursion into the Afrin region of Syria to sweep the YPG from its southern border zone.
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India complained of a "deep incursion" into its territory four years ago in which a platoon of about 30 Chinese soldiers entered the Daulat Beg Oldi area in the Depsang Valley of eastern Ladakh in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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Girls who do not fit today's princess mold are often deemed tomboys, implying that their preferences are an incursion into a boy's world, putting their budding femininity (however they wish to define it) at odds with their interests.
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NATO member Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and launched the incursion into neighboring Syria in August to drive the radical Sunni militants, as well as Kurdish militia fighters, away from its borders.
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Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the United States envoy to Moscow, said Mr. Trump would use the meeting to "continue to hold Russia accountable for its malign activities," including Mr. Putin's election meddling and his military incursion into Ukraine.
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An Israeli lieutenant colonel was killed and another officer was wounded in the action near Khan Younis, the first known Israeli ground incursion into Gaza since Operation Protective Edge, in July 2014, set off a seven-week war.
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After Ankara repeatedly warned it would launch a military incursion into northeast Syria targeting the YPG, Turkey and the United States said this month they had agreed on the first stages of a security deal along the border.
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When Trump announced last month he would withdraw troops from northern Syria, Graham warned it would be the "worst mistake" of his presidency, threatened Turkey with "crippling sanctions" for its incursion into Syria and teamed up with Sen.
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The United States has a compulsion when it comes to "West Side Story," restaging, again and again, the primal scene of the colony's incursion into American consciousness, the midcentury's "gran migración" of Puerto Ricans to New York City.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expects Turkey to take responsibility of captive Islamic State fighters, a senior State Department official said on Monday, if Ankara's planned incursion into northeast Syria seizes areas where the detained militants are held.
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The dispute comes at a time when relations between the NATO allies are strained due to Turkey's threats of an incursion into northeastern Syria, after Ankara accused Washington of stalling efforts to establish a 'safe zone' there together.
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Turkey, which conducted its own incursion into Syria in support of the anti-IS rebels, is meanwhile erecting a wall and fortifying stretches of the frontier, in a clamp down which is keeping out both militants and refugees.
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Turkey launched an incursion into Syria in August in support of largely Turkmen and Arab rebel fighters to try to drive Islamic State away from its border and prevent Kurdish militia groups from seizing ground in their wake.
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The latest, McConnell's resolution, recognizes the role Kurdish allies have played in the fight against the Islamic State, condemns the Turkish incursion into Syria and asks Trump to reconsider his invitation to Erdoğan to visit the White House.
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In India, Paytm, a company that allows merchants and consumers to send money with a few taps on a smartphone, invaded the WhatsApp's instant-messaging territory in a preemptive move against its incursion into person-to-person payments.
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Some 10 days ago, Turkey mounted its first full-scale incursion into Syrian territory since the conflict began in 2011, aimed at IS and at U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in the area, which have also been battling the jihadists.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's central bank slashed its policy rate more than expected to 14% on Thursday, taking advantage of an inflation dip and a steadier lira after Washington canceled just-announced sanctions over Ankara's military incursion into northeast Syria.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's central bank slashed its policy rate more than expected to 14% on Thursday, taking advantage of an inflation dip and a steadier lira after Washington canceled just-announced sanctions over Ankara's military incursion into northeast Syria.
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MOSCOW, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service said on Wednesday it had thwarted an armed Ukrainian incursion into Crimea designed to target critical infrastructure and that a Russian soldier and FSB employee had been killed in the clashes.
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The Turkish army, its senior ranks purged following a failed military attempt to overthrow Erdogan in July, launched an incursion into Syria in August to push back Islamic State and prevent U.S.-backed Kurdish militia fighters from seizing territory.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's lira was flat on Thursday as its state banks continued to squeeze offshore swap markets to support the currency, ahead of expected high-level U.S. talks in Ankara over the Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria.
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ABU DHABI/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia called Turkey's military incursion into northeast Syria "unacceptable" and said on Tuesday the operation had to be limited in time and scale, a rare broadside that suggests Moscow's patience with Ankara is wearing thin.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's lira was flat on Thursday as its state banks continued to squeeze offshore swap markets to support the currency, ahead of expected high-level U.S. talks in Ankara over the Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria.
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A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia's incursion into Ukraine disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and a top White House adviser, during the 2016 election campaign.
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Turkey, which launched its first major military incursion into Syria two and half weeks ago, has said it is preparing to provide humanitarian aid to the northern city of Aleppo in conjunction with the United Nations following the deal.
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At today's stock price, L'Oreal's 9 percent stake in Sanofi - a legacy from its incursion into the pharmaceuticals business in 1973, before the modern day Sanofi was formed - is worth more than 7 billion euros, according to Reuters data.
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Speaking at a parliamentary commission in Ankara, Isik said a total of 35 Turkish soldiers have been killed since the start of Turkey-backed rebels' incursion into northern Syria that began on August 24, an operation dubbed 'Euphrates Shield'.
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He chose not to review National Security Council talking points on the risk of losing influence in the Middle East, and there was no discussion of national security objectives before he called Erdoğan and greenlighted Turkey's incursion into Syria.
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AKCAKALE, Turkey — The Turkish Army halted its incursion into a Kurdish-run area of northern Syria on Wednesday morning, after a deal between the Turkish and Russian governments promised that Kurdish fighters would retreat from the Turkish-Syrian border.
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Trump's move was met with bipartisan criticism, with lawmakers saying it essentially paved the way for Turkey's incursion into northern Syria that is targeting Syrian Kurdish forces who had been instrumental for years in the U.S. fight against terror.
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But the Iraqi leadership's success in averting a deeper incursion into the embassy compound and preventing any confrontation with American personnel suggested that the government may have intended to allow the militias to vent their anger with minimal damage.
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The official said Mattis explained the challenges involved with Turkey's incursion into Syria drawing away US-backed allies from the ISIS fight and ISIS' beginning to reconstitute itself in remote positions in the middle Euphrates river valley of Syria.
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The Turkish Army's incursion into Syria in October, which was popular at home, gave Mr. Erdogan a temporary boost in the polls, but his ratings fell again as Turks suffered economic hardship and resentment grew over growing economic inequality.
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Turkey's incursion into Syria on Wednesday is prompting fresh bipartisan condemnation of President Donald Trump's moves and more congressional threats to hamstring Turkey economically, with some Republicans calling the situation "sickening" and a "terrible mistake" by the president. Sen.
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MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia's incursion into Ukraine disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and a top White House adviser, in December.
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The increasingly undemocratic NATO member has cozied up to Moscow, bought Russian military equipment and conducted a widely condemned incursion into Syria that has led some US officials to charge that war crimes are being committed in Turkey's name.
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Last week, the country launched its long-threatened incursion into the country after Trump ordered a small contingent of about 50 US troops to be pulled back from the border area amid a belief that a Turkish incursion was imminent.
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It comes days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched the incursion into Syria to drive Kurdish forces -- a key US ally against ISIS -- away from the border and to use the area to resettle around 2 million Syrian refugees.
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By sending two nuclear-capable bombers to Caracas for a week of "joint operational flights" with the Venezuelan air force, Vladimir Putin awarded Nicolás Maduro a propaganda victory and irked the U.S. with a new incursion into the Western hemisphere.
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But the last agreement, New Start, still leaves each country with 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads, and now -- with tensions rising over the West's missile defense system and Russia's incursion into Ukraine -- there's virtually no chance for any new agreement.
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Vice President Mike Pence announced in Turkey Thursday that he and Turkish President Erdogan agreed to a ceasefire halting Turkey's incursion into northern Syria, though eyewitnesses and Kurdish fighters say clashes have continued on the border between Turkey and Syria.
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" Jeffrey reiterated that the US had told Turkey not to proceed with the incursion against America's Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS, saying the operation was not "inevitable" and that Turkey's subsequent incursion into the area has been "really tragic.
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Unlike past elections, this one is not a contest between those favouring closer ties with the West and Russia respectively, thanks largely to Vladimir Putin's seizure of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula, and incursion into the east of the country in 2014.
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Clashes between the two groups took place at the start of the Turkish incursion into Syria, and the US has since helped oversee an informal arrangement under which Turkish and Kurdish forces will operate on opposite sides of the Euphrates River.
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Turkey's incursion into northeast Syria has further tested its ties with the United States and could imperil its economy's recovery from recession, which was sparked by a crisis that chopped nearly 30% off the value of the lira last year.
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The United States and Turkey announced on Thursday they had agreed to the pause in Turkey's incursion into northern Syria to let the Kurdish-led SDF militia, forces long allied with Washington, withdraw from an area controlled by Turkish forces.
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Syria will resist any ground incursion into its territory and send the aggressors home "in coffins", its foreign minister said on Saturday, in comments clearly aimed at Sunni Arab countries that have said they were ready to join such an operation.
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The three, interviewed in Syria's Suluk town, controlled by Syrian rebels backed by Turkey, said they had fled during the chaos of Turkey's incursion into Syria last month and turned themselves over to Turkish forces in hopes of returning home.
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Trump's decision on October 6 to withdraw US forces from northern Syria, where they had fought for years alongside Kurdish militias against the Islamic State, opened the way for Turkey to launch a long-threatened military incursion into northern Syria.
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The incursion into the Afrin region targets the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish YPG, viewed by Ankara as a terrorist group and an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought an insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast since 1984.
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"There was a bit of excitement as everybody rushed into the business over the last year or so, and that excitement now is going away," Steve Burke, CEO of NBCUniversal, said of tech companies' incursion into the pay-TV business.
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Erdogan described Turkey's "Euphrates Shield" operation, an incursion into northern Syrian to push back Islamic State and try to prevent YPG gains, as just a first phase and spoke of a "roadmap" for more operations both there and in Iraq.
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They will likely discuss Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election; how to wind down the war in Syria; Moscow's annexation of Crimea and broader incursion into Ukraine; and how to reduce the number of nuclear weapons around the world.
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Above all, the show insists that the veil is not at all a "foreign" incursion into Europe, a mistake made by both serious writers like Michel Houellebecq and by a motley collection of populists, extremists and out-and-out racists.
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Turkey began its incursion into Afrin a month ago, saying it wanted to clear the enclave of Kurdish militias, which it says are affiliated with Mr. Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P.K.K., which has long waged a separatist insurgency in Turkey.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian court on Monday upheld death sentences handed down to nine men from the Philippines in connection with an 2013 incursion into the Malaysian part of Borneo island by Philippine fighters seeking to stake an ancient claim.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is set to impose economic sanctions on Ankara, potentially as early as this week, for its incursion into northern Syria, one of the few levers the United States still has over NATO-ally Turkey.
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Erdogan called Wednesday on Syrian Kurdish fighters to leave a designated border area in northeast Syria 'as of tonight' for Turkey to stop its military offensive, defying pressure on him to call a ceasefire and halt its incursion into Syria.
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But his talk of intervening in Libya follows a Turkish incursion into northern Syria two months ago, as Turkish troops moved against American-backed, Kurdish-led militias there and struck an accommodation with the Russian forces active in the country.
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The former soldier, Lisa Smith, 38, was deported with her 2-year-old daughter on a Turkish Airlines flight with the cooperation of the Irish government, after she had been detained by Turkish forces during their recent incursion into Syria.
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That, to many observers, confirms it has essentially agreed with Russia on a trade: Turkey allows rebel defeat in Aleppo, in exchange for Russia's blessing of its incursion into Syria farther north to keep Kurdish militias away from its border.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Doctors from Turkey's large cities have been stationed in two southern provinces to prepare for a possible incursion into northern Syria, two security sources told Reuters on Friday, adding leave for doctors in the region had been canceled.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A group of 292 Syrians went home to the Syrian town of Jarablus on Wednesday, marking the first formal civilian returns from Turkey since the start of a Turkish-backed incursion into northern Syria, a Turkish regional official said.
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Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria in August, sending in special forces, tanks and warplanes in a bid to drive Islamic State out of a corridor of border territory and prevent Kurdish fighters from seizing ground in their wake.
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The president's ardent defense of the U.S.-Turkey partnership came after the White House late Sunday announced that Trump had spoken by phone with Erdogan about the planned Turkish incursion into northern Syria, which prominent lawmakers of both parties pilloried Monday.
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The Obama administration and the Kremlin have been estranged over President Vladimir Putin's apparent attempts to undermine US power and Western-style liberalism, over the incursion into Ukraine and an alleged Russian espionage operation to help throw last year's election to Trump.
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A close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iran has offered to engage Syrian Kurds, the Damascus government and Turkey in talks to establish security along the Turkish-Syrian border following Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria to fight Kurdish forces.
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These include an incursion into the border town of Arsal in 2014 and suicide bomb attacks that have targeted the army and areas dominated by the Shi'ite Lebanese group Hezbollah, which is fighting in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Back in 2628, after the Russian incursion into Ukraine and the explicit threat this posed to European energy supplies, the G-28500 and the EU adopted a modern set of energy security principles that moved beyond the 6900-year-old oil-centric version.
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Ties were frayed in early 2009, following Israel's armed incursion into Gaza, and were cut off in May 2010, when Israeli naval commandos intercepted a flotilla of boats that was attempting to sail to Gaza, resulting in the deaths of ten Turkish activists.
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The Senate has also failed to move forward legislation condemning Turkey for its incursion into northeastern Syria and attacks on U.S.-backed Kurdish forces, which triggered a humanitarian crisis, and its support of proxy forces accused of committing war crimes during the offensive.
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Moscow cited the battlefield successes of the Nusra Front to justify its military incursion into Syria as a campaign to fight terrorism — even if its primary goal was to shore up Mr. Assad's military against all insurgent groups, including the C.I.A.-backed rebels.
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He strategized that the state could achieve its goals by combining military, cyber, diplomatic, economic and cultural tools -- the same grab bag of tactics that presaged Russia's annexation of Crimea and incursion into Ukraine and morphed into its meddling in the US election.
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Be smart: Three huge developments set up a new tension for Trump... Mueller's incursion into the Trump Organization, impinging on the president's red line of family finances, is sure to get under Trump's skin, and may make him want to fire Mueller.
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The move has been widely criticized as an abandonment of Kurdish-led forces in the region who have been fighting the Islamic State alongside the US for years, and it has paved the way for a major Turkish incursion into Kurdish territory.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Members of Brazil's armed forces, who have largely stayed out of political life since the end of the military dictatorship 30 years ago, are making their biggest incursion into politics in decades, with some even warning of a military intervention.
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In late January, as the new coronavirus was making its first incursion into the United States, the Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration's contested "public charge" rule, which enables federal officials to deny green cards to immigrants who use social safety net programs.
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The two leaders will likely discuss Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election; how to wind down the war in Syria; Moscow's annexation of Crimea and broader incursion into Ukraine; and how to reduce the number of nuclear weapons around the world.
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Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria in August in support of Syrian rebels to try to push Islamic State away from its border area, and has also frequently carried out raids on suspected jihadist safe-houses in Istanbul and other cities.
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ISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A looming Turkish incursion into northern Syria is set to reshape the map of the Syrian conflict once again, dealing a blow to Kurdish-led forces that have battled Islamic State while widening Turkey's territorial control at the border.
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LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Turkey's sovereign dollar bonds came under fresh pressure on Tuesday with some longer-dated issues slipping to two-week lows amid jitters over Ankara's planned incursion into northern Syria and President Donald Trump's threat to the country's economy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States does not support a planned Turkish incursion into northeast Syria "in any shape or form" as it will not make the region any more secure against threats from Islamic State, a senior State Department official said on Monday.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria will resist any ground incursion into its territory and send the aggressors home "in coffins", its foreign minister said on Saturday, in comments clearly aimed at Sunni Arab countries that have said they were ready to join such an operation.
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The Turkish military said earlier that a suspected Syrian air strike had killed the three soldiers, in what appeared to be the first Turkish casualties at the hands of Syrian government forces since Turkey launched an incursion into Syria three months ago.
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The New Dems hope that some of that trepidation as it relates to election cybersecurity will have passed now that the Obama administration is gone -- a number of the states most concerned about federal incursion into election security were under Republican leadership.
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US and European officials who have met with members of the administration describe receiving mixed signals about American intentions moving forward, particularly on the future of US sanctions on Moscow for its incursion into Ukraine and its cyber-meddling in last year's presidential election.
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Then it was George W. Bush who presided over the Balts' arrival in NATO (visiting several times) and Barack Obama who, weeks after Russia's incursion into eastern Ukraine, visited Estonia to reassure Balts who feared they would be the next target of Russia's hybrid warfare.
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The fighting comes days after Pence announced that he and Erdogan had agreed to a deal to halt Turkey's incursion into northern Syria, which was launched after President Donald Trump effectively gave Turkey the go-ahead on a phone call with Erdogan earlier this month.
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Then, on Monday, Trump announced "Big sanctions on Turkey coming!" to punish Ankara for its incursion into Syria, a move that's unlikely to convince Turkey to stop its military operation but that will certainly cause further strain in the US's relationship with its NATO ally.
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Istanbul (CNN)Turkey says its warplanes have bombed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, marking what may be the biggest single attack by Turkish forces against US-allied Kurds in that war-torn country since the Turkish military launched an incursion into Syria two months ago.
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In my experience with the iPhone X, the only times that the notch has ever been noticeable as an incursion into the regular user experience has been exactly when viewing photos or video, and I'm encouraged to see OnePlus tackling those pain points directly.
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Turkey has ramped up its warnings of a possible incursion into northern Syria in recent days, saying it had run "out of patience" with Washington over the safe zone talks and adding that it would launch its operation if an agreement was not reached.
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The federal police units, around 4,000 strong, have been moved to an area southeast of the city, near where an army tank division last week made the deepest incursion into Mosul so far, briefly seizing a hospital used as a base by the militants.
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Department of Homeland Security officials said the closure occurred because they'd received information from "multiple sources, including individuals in the Mexican government" about groups who were reportedly communicating about plans for an incursion into legal ports of entry by attempting to pass through vehicle lanes.
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If there was any hope the fissures might be repaired before Trump arrived, it was dashed on Friday morning when the President told reporters he was open to reinstating Russia's participation in the group, which was suspended after Moscow's incursion into Ukraine in 2013.
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On Wednesday, a letter written by Trump to Erdogan on October 9 was leaked amid heightened criticism of Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria, which effectively greenlit Turkey's military incursion into the region to fight Kurdish forces known as the YPG.
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And Putin's aggressive attempts to recreate the glory of Moscow's Cold War-era power, Moscow's annexation of Crimea and incursion into eastern Ukraine and a biological weapons attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain have seen him ostracized in Europe.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been threatening an incursion into Kurdish-controlled Syrian territory for months, asking the US to help Turkey create a "safe zone" there for Ankara to repatriate Syrian refugees who settled in Turkey during the eight-year Syrian civil war.
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While some of the violence in the state is related to the control of drug distribution routes and the region's enormous opium poppy industry, the spread of small criminal groups and their incursion into local crimes has helped to spur electoral violence, local politicians say.
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Among the main reasons for Russia's weak navy, which hasn't seen many major updates since the Soviet era, are the sanctions put in place by the U.S. and the EU in 2014 in response to Russia's incursion into Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Iraqi President Barham Salih to discuss the Turkish military incursion into Syria and the U.S. desire for the offensive to end immediately, according to a State Department summary of the phone call released on Tuesday.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's incursion into Syria will stretch from Kobani in the west to Hasaka in the east, going some 30 km (19 miles) into Syrian territory, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, and the town of Ras al Ain was already under Turkish control.
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On Monday, after a White House announcement the night before that Mr. Trump was moving American troops out of the way of a threatened Turkish incursion into Syria, Defense Department officials were struggling to put their already piecemeal Syria military strategy back together again.
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In October, Bosnia's security minister said the country was preparing to take back and try nine of its nationals suspected of fighting for Islamic State in Syria but their return was postponed after Turkey launched a military incursion into northeast Syria to fight Kurdish militia.
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Lindsey Graham has in the last year become something of a congressional point man for President Donald Trump's negotiations with Turkey, leading discussions on everything from Ankara's purchase of a Russian missile system over the summer to their more recent incursion into northern Syria.
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Laird, a Republican from Wisconsin who once served in the U.S. House of Representatives, also maneuvered to get Nixon to pick Gerald Ford as vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned, was instrumental in creating the all-volunteer U.S. military and privately opposed Nixon's incursion into Cambodia.
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The fighting comes just a day after Pence announced that he and Erdogan had agreed to a deal to halt Turkey's incursion into northern Syria, which was launched after President Donald Trump effectively gave Turkey the go ahead on a phone call with Erdogan earlier this month.
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The U.S. decision to indefinitely suspend the program, which has not been previously reported, was made in response to Turkey's cross-border military incursion into Syria in October, the U.S. officials said, revealing the extent of the damage to ties between the NATO allies from the incident.
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Turkey, Russia trade words As tensions between Ankara and Moscow simmer -- particularly since Turkey's downing of a Russian military aircraft in November -- a Russian military spokesman expressed suspicion Thursday that Turkey was preparing a major military incursion into Syria, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
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Recent patrols by Chinese submarines in the Bay of Bengal have unnerved New Delhi, and a 2014 visit to India by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, did nothing to soothe Indian sensibilities, as Chinese troops made an incursion into border territory that India claims as its own.
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The F-16, one of at least eight Israeli planes despatched in response to what Israel said was an Iranian drone's incursion into its airspace earlier in the day, was hit by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile and crashed in northern Israel, an Israeli official told Reuters.
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Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes launched their first major incursion into Syria on Wednesday in support of Syrian rebels, in an operation President Tayyip Erdogan has said is aimed both at driving Islamic State away from the border area and preventing territorial gains by the YPG.
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This is best illustrated by the recent detainment and then quick release of U.S. sailors for an incursion into Iranian waters, and the statement and then denial by Iran that it had completely closed off a key nuclear reactor that would have sealed the nuclear deal.
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Recent reports of violence could be a sign that Chapo's arrest in January, six months after he escaped from maximum-security jail, may have emboldened old rivals to such a degree that they have now launched an incursion into what was once considered his impenetrable territory.
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Silicon Valley VC 7BC Venture Capital has decided to make an incursion into Europe, recruiting its first venture partner in the U.K. Monty Munford was previously a freelance journalist, conference speaker and columnist contributing to Forbes, The Telegraph, The Economist, BBC Newsweek and Wired, among others.
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Macron also lamented the "destabilization" of the Middle East which has made efforts to counter the ISIS threat "more difficult" — an oblique criticism of Trump's tacit approval of a Turkish incursion into northern Syria and subsequent directive to withdraw the last U.S. troops from the area.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Turkey's incursion into Syria is an opportunity for Russia to dial up its influence in the region as Washington appears to be pulling back, but the risks to Moscow's diplomacy will rise the longer the operation goes on, people close to the Kremlin say.
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But this year's meeting was made even more difficult by Erdogan, who launched an incursion into Syria and bought Russian missiles against the objections of his allies, and by French President Emmanuel Macron, who had described the alliance's strategy as brain dead in an interview last month.
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A source familiar with the Syria issue said Erdogan was urged by the administration to refrain from a military incursion into Syria's Manbij, a town just west of the Euphrates river held by the YPG, and was warned that the United States would defend itself if threatened.
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In the Reuters interview, he ticked off areas that he discussed privately with Putin, including security for Israel, Syria and Russia's annexation of Crimea and incursion into eastern Ukraine, and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany that will supply natural gas to Germany.
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In the aftermath of Russia&aposs annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014 and its subsequent military incursion into eastern Ukraine, the Pentagon ramped up joint exercises in eastern and central Europe and spent billions on what it calls the European Deterrence Initiative aimed at Russia.
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The second report, issued by the Pentagon's inspector general, describes the US-led coalition being forced into a two-month "operational pause" when Turkey's incursion into the Syrian Kurdish city of Afrin led the US-allied Kurdish forces to abandon the fight against ISIS to defend the city.
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The suicide attack at a police headquarters in a province bordering Syria and Iraq came two days after Turkey launched its first major military incursion into Syria, an operation meant to drive Islamic State out of the border area and stop Kurdish militias from seizing ground in their wake.
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Operating both individually and in tandem, the three men have developed an informal, next-generation line of communication between Mr. Trump and his Turkish counterpart, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who only weeks after his military incursion into northern Syria is scheduled to visit the White House on Wednesday.
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Washington (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Wednesday it was important to bring Turkey "back in the fold" as he renewed warnings that Ankara appeared to be drifting away from NATO with this year's arms deal with Russia and its incursion into Syria.
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After President Trump abruptly ordered the withdrawal of most US forces from Syria earlier this month, a Turkish military incursion into the area those troops had previously occupied set off a humanitarian catastrophe — sending nearly 200,000 civilians fleeing from the Syrian frontier, about one third of them children.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State has exploited Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria and the drawdown of U.S. troops from the region, according to a report published on Tuesday by the Pentagon's Inspector General, adding that the militant group will likely have the "time and space" to target the West.
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In the days just before Turkey's military incursion into Syria, for which the stated aim includes purging a Kurdish militia that has been allied with the United States in the fight against the Islamic State, President Trump made a comment on the history of the two conflicting sides.
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To an outsider, Israel's wars, such as the incursion into Gaza in 2014 and the Lebanon war of 2006, seem frequent, but the reality for most soldiers and officers, particularly in the ground forces, is one of long periods of low-level operations in which their military skills are eroded.
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Erdogan warned this month that Turkey "will not wait until the blade is against our bone" in going after its enemies abroad and has hinted at a possible incursion into Iraq if a U.S.-backed assault against Islamic State in the city of Mosul causes sectarian strife which threatens Turkey's borders.
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The question of US sanctions against Russia for its incursion into Crimea, the future of Syria after the impending fall of ISIS and how to prevent American and Russian forces active in the country from clashing, and willingness of the US to stand by NATO allies are all in the balance.
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Tuesday's authorization comes after Department of Homeland Security officials said Monday that they were getitng information from "multiple sources including individuals in the Mexican government" of potential waves or groups of individuals who were discussing an incursion into legal ports of entry in California by attempting to pass through vehicle lanes.
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President Donald Trump declared the ISIS caliphate defeated in March of this year, but after a Turkish incursion into northeast Syria where ISIS prisoners are held, and with unrest in Iraq, US officials and experts warn that the instability in the region is providing ISIS with the opportunity for a comeback.
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It marked a major incursion into the United States market, a shot across the bow of WWE that the world's No. 2 wrestling company might be far behind in terms of resources and market saturation but not so far behind that the hardcore pro wrestling fans weren't up for grabs.
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U.S. lawmakers have been fuming about Turkey, however, in recent months, because of its purchase of a Russian missile defense system in defiance of U.S. sanctions and, more recently, its incursion into northern Syria to fight Kurdish forces after Trump abruptly announced he was withdrawing U.S. troops from the area.
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It will be a lot harder to pull this feint again, military experts said, particularly if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey goes ahead with his threatened incursion into northern Syria, as it has been the presence of American troops alongside the Kurds that many believe has kept him at bay.
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Turkey's incursion into Syria came after it had called in vain for several years for world powers to help create a "safe zone" along the Syrian border, with the aim of clearing out Islamic State and Kurdish fighters and of stemming a wave of migration that has caused tension with Europe.
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"We all wish that Russia was on a different trajectory, but after what we've seen in Georgia and Ukraine, we have to hope for the best and prepare for the worst," he said, referring to the Russian military incursion into Georgia in 2008 and the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
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Trump has expressed admiration for Putin as a leader, even as the Russian president remains deeply at odds with the US following his incursion into Ukraine and his support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom the US has called on to leave office as a bloody civil war rages in his country.
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Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey could play the same role in the Mosul offensive or any campaign to take Raqqa, Islamic State's stronghold in Syria, as it did with its August incursion into the Syria, when it sent in tanks and fighter jets in support of Syrian rebels fighting the Islamist radicals.
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This comes as Department of Homeland Security officials said Monday that they had started to get information from "multiple sources including individuals in the Mexican government" of potential waves or groups of individuals who were discussing an incursion into legal ports of entry in California by attempting to pass through vehicle lanes.
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They called him 'boy' Reunited with his father, Qassem Abdu Ali, at the Rwanga community camp, home to thousands of Yazidis who fled ISIS' incursion into Sinjar, Lazem sits quietly behind the weather-beaten figure; ten days since they were reconciled, he has not yet managed to say a word to his father.
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The US's decision to pull out of northeastern Syria, leaving its partners, the Syrian Democratic Forces, to fight a Turkish incursion into the area was "a rotten policy decision" that undid US gains against ISIS and would have long-term consequences for the US, on veteran of anti-ISIS operations told Insider.
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What's next: It's too soon to say what will happen, but Pentagon officials express fear that Turkey's incursion into Syria could lead to the release of tens of thousands of ISIS fighters and the return of the self-proclaimed caliphate that the U.S. and its partners have spent the past five years destroying.
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And while Trump said the US would soon have total victory over ISIS, US defense officials have recently publicly acknowledged that progress against ISIS has been largely halted due to Turkey's recent military incursion into Afrin, Syria, an operation that has caused US-backed Kurdish fighters to divert from the ISIS fight.
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What's next: While Trump said the US would soon have total victory over ISIS, US defense officials have recently ackowledged that progress against ISIS has been largely halted due to Turkey's recent military incursion into Afrin, Syria -- an operation that has caused US-backed Kurdish fighters to divert from the ISIS fight.
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The United States should make clear to Russia that any military incursion into Europe, including the "little green men" tactics seen at the beginning of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, would incur a punitive blockade of Russia's maritime access to the West that would affect nearly two-thirds of all Russian seaborne trade.
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Kanter has since found a welcome audience on Capitol Hill where Congress has struggled to punish Turkey for a number of offenses, including its purchase of Russian weapons system in violation of U.S. sanctions and Erdoğan's incursion into northeastern Syria against Kurdish forces allied with the U.S. in the fight against ISIS.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE's (D-Mass.) seat should Warren win the presidency, is one of numerous bipartisan voices who have condemned the Syria pullout, which was followed by Turkey's incursion into the region.
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Less than a week after Turkey launched an incursion into northern Syria with Mr. Trump's assent, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, considered a war criminal by the United States, has benefited handsomely, striking a deal with the United States' former allies to take the northern border and rapidly gaining territory without a fight.
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In a blistering series of tweets on Wednesday, Brett McGurk, former US envoy to the International Coalition to Defeat Daesh and chief architect of the American alliance with the SDF, condemned Erdogan's incursion into Syria and underlined the indulgent Turkish relationship with ISIS that allowed the jihadist group to spread in the first place.
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If it turns out that Trump's campaign was directly working with Putin during the election, if Trump's mixed signals lead Putin to make a military incursion into Eastern Europe, if members of Trump's Cabinet profit from decisions they make over Russian foreign policy — all of that really could give Democrats political ammunition they can deploy, according to Grossmann.
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TOKYO — Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperBahrain joins US-led coalition to protect Gulf shipping Congress must exercise its power to ensure America has no war with Iran Pentagon tests previously banned cruise missile MORE said Tuesday that the United States would find a Turkish incursion into northern Syria "unacceptable" and would seek to prevent such an operation.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Veterans group backs lawsuits to halt Trump's use of military funding for border wall Schiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails MORE on Monday said he would implement sanctions on Turkey following bipartisan backlash over his decision to greenlight the country's incursion into northern Syria.
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Turkey, under strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hasn't acted the part of a NATO ally lately, but a NATO ally it is and so is more important than the Syrian Kurds, who need to do a deal with Damascus to blunt the Turkish incursion into Syria and to create leverage for the political jockeying in post-war Syria.
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Senators have introduced myriad bills in the wake of Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump's legal team huddles with Senate Republicans Schumer briefs Democrats on impeachment trial 'mechanics' Trump legal team gears up for Senate impeachment trial in meeting with GOP senators MORE (R-Ky.) has cautioned against imposing sanctions.
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Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperSenate Democrats raise concerns about ISIS strategy after closed-door briefing Pentagon releases images of al-Baghdadi raid Pelosi: Syria briefing still needed after al-Baghdadi briefing MORE on Thursday excoriated Turkey's "unwarranted" incursion into northern Syria, saying it put progress made in the region against the Islamic State at risk, according to The Associated Press.
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While sitting alongside the Italian President in the Oval Office, Trump was asked if he is concerned about the safety of "as many as 50 nuclear weapons at Incirlik Air Base" given the ongoing Turkish incursion into Syria -- a situation that has prompted bipartisan condemnation from members of Congress and suggestions that the weapons should be moved to another location.
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Rep. Ilhan OmarIlhan OmarButtigieg on Republican SCIF crash: 'This behavior is an embarrassment' Omar warns sanctions on Turkey would be ineffective in op-ed Omar knocks Republicans for appearing to bring phones into highly-classified SCIF room MORE (D-Minn.) condemned Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria following the U.S. withdrawal but warned sanctions against the nation would not solve the problem.
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After Russia's incursion into Ukraine and annexation of Crimea in 2014, the United States and NATO allies sent small units of troops to Poland and the Baltic States on a rotating basis as a deterrent to any further moves by Moscow, a reminder that those nations were now under the protection of the North Atlantic alliance's all-for-one defense umbrella.
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An unnamed woman (Judith Roddy) exists to do the bidding, sexual and otherwise, of her ploughman husband, Pony William (Christian Cooke), whose authority is challenged by the incursion into his wife's hardscrabble routine by a loathed if comparably hirsute local miller (Matt Ryan); the physical similarities between the two actors allow for a cunning irony in view of the characters' deep-rooted differences.
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The covert U-2 surveillance flights—each of which was technically a dangerous and illegal incursion into Soviet airspace—actually helped defuse fears of the "missile gap" and the "bomber gap," and led Eisenhower to downshift America's own military buildup once his intelligence agencies realized that the Soviet Union possessed only a fraction of the ICBMs and bombers that the US feared.
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Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperCongress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Newsom mocks photo of Defense officials with Trump: 'The diversity is truly overwhelming' The Hill's Morning Report - White House escalates impeachment battle royal MORE stressed in August that the United States would find a Turkish incursion into northern Syria "unacceptable" and would seek to prevent such an operation.
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Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperTrump urges GOP to fight for him Overnight Defense: Trump weighs leaving some troops in Syria to 'secure the oil' | US has pulled 2,000 troops from Afghanistan | Pelosi leads delegation to Afghanistan, Jordan Trump says Israel, Jordan asked US to leave troops in Syria MORE said Sunday that Turkey "appears to be" committing war crimes in its incursion into northern Syria.
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" On October 22020, during the tumultuous period which followed the Turkish incursion into Kurdish controlled areas of northern Syria and the US announcing it was drawing down troops in the area, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told CNN, "Of the 240,2000 or so detainees that were in prisons in northeast Syria, we've only had reports of a little bit more than a hundred that have escaped.
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Turkey launched an incursion into northern Syria shortly President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchedule for additional depositions in impeachment inquiry revealed Sondland attorney disputes key portions of Taylor testimony: report Impeachment inquiry might be public by mid-November: report MORE pulled U.S. troops from the area, sparking criticism from both the right and the left and accusations that he was betraying the Kurds, an ally in the fight against ISIS.
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In Syria, the rebel Syrian Democratic Forces finally drove the remnants of an ISIS presence from the town of Manbij, a critical way station between Raqqa and the Syrian border (and not far from where al-Adnani was killed.) Hundreds of ISIS members fled north to the border town of Jarablus on the Syrian border -- only to flee again weeks later when the Turkish-led incursion into northern Syria began. Gen.
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Macron said in an interview earlier this month that NATO was dealing with "brain death" due to the United States being an unpredictable ally under President TrumpDonald John TrumpStates slashed 4,400 environmental agency jobs in past decade: study Biden hammers Trump over video of world leaders mocking him Iran building hidden arsenal of short-range ballistic missiles in Iraq: report MORE amid tensions with Turkey over its incursion into northern Syria.
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Rep. Ilhan OmarIlhan OmarOmar calls on US to investigate Turkey over possible war crimes in Syria Sanders surges ahead of Iowa caucuses Ilhan Omar responds to 'Conservative Squad': 'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery' MORE (D-Minn.) on Wednesday called for the State Department to investigate Turkey, citing allegations that the country's military forces used chemical weapons on civilians, a possible war crime that occurred during Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria in October.
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House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz CheneyElizabeth (Liz) Lynn CheneyHouse rejects GOP measure censuring Schiff House Republicans 'demand the release of the rules' on impeachment Republicans seek to delay effort to censure Schiff after Cummings' death MORE (R-Wyo.) plans to introduce legislation in the coming days to implement sanctions on Turkey over its incursion into northern Syria after President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Veterans group backs lawsuits to halt Trump's use of military funding for border wall Schiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails MORE withdrew U.S. forces from the area.
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