World update: October 16 2019

Stories from Syria, China, Spain, and more

Oct 17, 2019

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that he’d be happy to end Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria any time now, provided that Syrian Democratic Forces fighters drop their weapons and withdraw from the border area. Otherwise, he doesn’t sound terribly interested in calling Operation Peace Spring off. Erdoğan has r…

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