Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday blasted US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s “unfortunate” comments that she would consider arming Syrian Kurdish fighters, branding her proposal “politically inept.” “It is a very unfortunate statement,” Erdogan said in a televised speech at the presidential palace in Ankara. “To be honest I ...
Moscow on Wednesday hit out at British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson for accusing Russia of committing war crimes in Syria, dismissing his comments as “Russophobic hysteria.” Johnson on Tuesday called for protests outside the Russian embassy in London over Moscow’s air campaign in Syria, which is aimed at helping Damascus ...