The commander of the main U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force in Syria said Saturday that it has halted operations against the Islamic State group because of Turkish attacks on northern Syria over the past week. Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces told reporters that after nearly a week of Turkish airstrikes on... read full story
"The forces that work symbolically with the international coalition in the fight against Daesh are now targets for the Turkish state and therefore [military] operations have stopped,"