Late last month, the YPG called on Assad's forces to protect Manbij from attack by Turkey. Syrian government forces, which are backed by Russia, answered the YPG appeal by deploying outside Manbij.

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey-backed Syrian rebels entered the northern Syrian city of Manbij after taking control of most of the surrounding area from U.S.-allied Kurdish forces there, a Turkish ...

Troops from Turkey and the United States launched joint patrols in the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Thursday, the Turkish defence minister said, part of a bid to ease tensions between the ...

Turkey is ready to take over security in Syria's Manbij, where four U.S. citizens died in an Islamic State-claimed bombing last week, President Tayyip Erdogan told U.S. President Donald Trump in a ...

Kurdish-led fighters in Syria, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, say they have launched a counter-offensive against the Ankara-backed Syrian National Army to take back areas near Syria's ...

Turkey and the United States have reached an understanding, but not full agreement, about stabilizing the town of Manbij and other areas of Kurdish-controlled northern Syria, Turkish Foreign ...

Although Turkey would be content with the takeover of an area like Tel Rifat by the Syrian regime, ... Manbij is officially designated by the United States as an SDF-controlled area.

According to reports from Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) and the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the Turkey-backed forces advanced through Manbij’s neighborhoods, ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish forces will enter the Syrian town of Manbij if the United States does not remove YPG Kurdish fighters, and it will also target Kurdish-controlled areas further east ...

US troops will not withdraw from Manbij, a strategically important city in northern Syria, a leading US military figure told CNN Sunday. US general: US troops won't withdraw from Syrian city of Manbij ...

Defense Secretary Ash Carter Monday hailed the recapture of Manbij, a key strategic town in Syria as "another significant milestone in the campaign to deal ISIL a lasting defeat." "I want to ...

ANKARA - Turkey-backed Syrian rebels entered the northern Syrian city of Manbij after taking control of most of the surrounding area from U.S.-allied Kurdish forces there, a Turkish security source ...