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Turkey Invades Northern Iraq In Operation Against Kurdish Militants
Turkey Invades Northern Iraq In Operation Against Kurdish Militants Turkey has launched a cross-border operation into neighboring Iraq against Kurdish militants in a mountainous northern region of the country. The Turkish defense ministry confirmed its military unleashed a barrage of artillery fire and air strikes on Monday afternoon before ground forces entered northern Iraq to “demolish the caves and shelters […]
Turkey Dismisses Trump’s Threat To Devastate Economy Over Kurds
Turkey Dismisses Trump’s Threat To Devastate Economy Over Kurds Turkey has brushed off a Sunday threat by President Trump to “devastate” them economically if they attack the Kurdish militia (YPG) in northern Syria, which US forces have fought alongside against the Islamic State (IS). Turkey regards the YPG as terrorists. ✔ Starting the long overdue […]
Commanders In Syria Recommend Leaving US Weapons With Kurds
Commanders In Syria Recommend Leaving US Weapons With Kurds It has been little over a week since President Trump upended US foreign policy in the Middle East by abruptly recalling the few thousand US troops fighting alongside Kurdish fighters in Syria, and the administration is still figuring out exactly how to manage the withdrawal in […]
Russia Warns US To “Stop Playing With Fire” In Syria, Immediately Leave Area It Controls
Russia Warns US To “Stop Playing With Fire” In Syria, Immediately Leave Area It Controls Two weeks after a US B-52 strike killed scores of Russian mercenaries in Syria, which according to Bloomberg and Reuters were are as many as 200, while Russia said no more than 5 Russians were killed in the attack then […]
Turkey Slams ‘Allies’ For Sending “Planeloads Of Arms” To Terrorists Ahead Of Emergency UN Session
Turkey Slams ‘Allies’ For Sending “Planeloads Of Arms” To Terrorists Ahead Of Emergency UN Session Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned on Ankara’s allies, insinuating that the US in particular has been providing massive military support to Kurdish YPG in Syria. In a speech to his ruling AK Party, RT reports that Erdogan said […]
Turkish Tanks Cross Into Syria As Ground Offensive Against US-Backed Militia Begins
Turkish Tanks Cross Into Syria As Ground Offensive Against US-Backed Militia Begins Early on Sunday, Turkish ground forces crossed the border and pushed into northern Syria’s Afrin province on Sunday, Ankara said after launching artillery and air strikes on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border. Turkey sent armored divisions into […]
Russian Military Pulls Out Of Syrian Kurdish Town As Turkey Initiates “Massive Cross-Border Attack”
Russian Military Pulls Out Of Syrian Kurdish Town As Turkey Initiates “Massive Cross-Border Attack” Turkey’s defense minister has confirmed the Turkish military has begun cross-border shelling of the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin in what he further describes as the “de facto start” of the operation in order to destroy – in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s […]
Syria Vows To Shoot Down Turkish Jets As Erdogan Orders Putin “Do Not Oppose” Assault
Syria Vows To Shoot Down Turkish Jets As Erdogan Orders Putin “Do Not Oppose” Assault According to the Associated Press, this morning Syria said it would shoot down any Turkish jets carrying out attacks inside Syria. This comes as preparations continue for an imminent large-scale Turkish attack of Kurdish militia groups currently holding Afrin near the […]
US Syria Policy: One Step Closer to a New Large-Scale War
US Syria Policy: One Step Closer to a New Large-Scale War There are snags ahead for the US administration as it tries to bring to life its plans to build a wall on the Mexican border. President Trump will have to fight an uphill battle to keep his pre-election promise, but launching a program aimed […]
Patriotism, Flags and Referendums
Patriotism, Flags and Referendums Robert Frank London 1952-53‘Tis the jolly time of elections, referendums, flags and other democracy-related issues. They are all linked in some way or another, even if that’s not always obvious. Elections, in New Zealand and Germany this weekend, referendums in Catalonia and Kurdistan the coming week, a looming Party Congress in […]
Turkey’s Revival of a Dirty ‘Deep State’
Turkey’s Revival of a Dirty ‘Deep State’ Exclusive: NATO keeps backing Turkey, one of its members, despite its aid to the Islamic State and other jihadists fighting Syria’s secular government — and even though Turkey’s erratic President Erdogan may be leading NATO into a risky showdown with Syria’s Russian allies, writes Jonathan Marshall. Turkey’s embattled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is […]
ISIS oil trucks cross into Turkey every day, captured terrorist admits
ISIS oil trucks cross into Turkey every day, captured terrorist admits A captured Islamic State militant who spoke to Sputnik news agency has bolstered claims that Turkey is involved in illegal oil deals with the jihadist group up to the hilt. TrendsIslamic State 24-year-old Mahmud Ghazi Tatar says he joined Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) […]
The Collision Course in Syria
The Collision Course in Syria Exclusive: President Obama’s continued insistence on “regime change” in Syria and his support for Sunni jihadists not called ISIS have escalated tensions with Moscow, especially after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane along the Syrian border. This division may help only the extremists, writes Daniel Lazare. With Turkey downing a Russian […]
Putin Confirms Scope Of Russian Military Role In Syria
Putin Confirms Scope Of Russian Military Role In Syria Over the past 48 hours or so, we’ve seen what certainly appears to be visual confirmation of a non-negligible Russian military presence in Syria. For anyone coming to the story late, overt Russian involvement would seem to suggest that the geopolitical “main event” (so to speak), […]
