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After distancing itself from Al Qaeda, the militia spent years trying out an administration in Idlib province that set it apart from other rebel factions and which it is now partially transferring to the rest of the country

The Syrian National Council, the main opposition organization supported by Turkey, and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, the fundamentalist group leading the offensive, are the predominant actors on which a possible transition period will fall

An operation led by HTS, with roots in Al Qaeda, and rebels allied to Turkey have made their move on the Syrian chessboard in the face of the ineffectiveness of the regime and its allies

Turkey claims to have coordinated the exchange of 24 prisoners, plus two minors, from the US, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus. Turkish intelligence sources told EL PAÍS that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entrusted his secret service chief to personally handle the case

Hungary’s Orbán, the only NATO ally not to have ratified Sweden’s accession, takes step toward breaking deadlock

The Turkish government said that 36 militants were killed in Iraq, and nine others in Syria, in the 24 hours following the attack

Sweden’s accession protocol will now need to be approved in the Turkish parliament’s general assembly for the last stage of the legislative process in Turkey

Demonstrators headed to Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank and gathered in Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Yemen and other countries

The attack occurred as parliament was set to re-open with an address by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The May 28 second-round vote will determine whether the country remains under the president’s firm grip or can embark on a more democratic course promised by his main rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu

The results, whether they come within days or after a second round of voting takes place in two weeks, will determine if the country remains under Erdogan’s control or resumes the more democratic path promised by his main rival

Erdogan sat behind a desk surrounded by Cabinet members, aides and political allies to preside at the event marking the delivery of the first fuel to the Russian-built Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in southern Turkey

The elections will determine whether the country will take a more democratic path or continue on the increasingly authoritarian course set by the strongman politician

International teams are being deployed in the hardest-hit areas of the country but face delays in reaching survivors due to the scale of destruction and fuel shortages

The 7.8 magnitude tremor is the strongest recorded in the region in more than 20 years