US President Barack Obama said he is “not optimistic” about Syria’s future, warning that Aleppo was likely to “fall”. Obama said the Russian and Iranian backing for Syrian government had made the situation untenable for the opposition. “I am not optimistic about the short-term prospects in Syria,” he said Sunday ...
Thousands of opposition protesters demonstrated in Istanbul on Sunday against a crackdown on MPs from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party and municipal chiefs in the southeast. At least 5,000 people — mainly supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) — gathered on the ...
