A U.S. Senate committee backed legislation to impose sanctions on Turkey after its offensive in Syria and purchase of a Russian S-400 missile system, the latest move in the chamber to push Republican President Donald Trump to take a harder line against Ankara. The Republican-led Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted …
Read More »U.S. Considering Plan To Remove Nuclear Bombs From Turkish Airbase
According to, The New York Times report U.S. government is reportedly examining multiple plans for how it might remove approximately 50 B61 nuclear gravity bombs it keeps in ready storage at the American-operated portion of Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base. This comes a week after Turkey launched an operation into northern …
Read More »Turkish F-16 Shot Down Unidentified Drone That Violated Turkish Airspace Near Syrian Border
Turkish F-16s on Sunday shot down an Unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) near the Syrian border after it violated Turkish airspace multiple times, said Turkey’s Defense Ministry. “An unmanned aerial vehicle which violated our air space six times (on Saturday)… was downed by two of our F-16s which took off …
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