1 Refugee crisis: A Spanish aid organization said Friday it feared hundreds of refugees may have died off Libya’s coast, while Turkish media reported that 11 died after a boat sank in the Aegean Sea.
The push toward the Tishrin Dam came three days after U.S. aircraft ferried Syrian Kurdish fighters and allies to spearhead a major ground assault on Tabqa, where the dam is located.
Syria’s U.N. ambassador, Bashar al-Ja’afari, said the hundreds of American personnel are “invading my country,” insisting that any effort to liberate Raqqa should be done in coordination with the Damascus government.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
