Turkey refused for the past several years to renew peace talks with Kurdish parties inside and outside Turkey, arrested Kurdish elected leaders. It resurrects Islamic State and Qaeda threat, empowers Islamic State's enabler, and gives Iran opening to expand its reach by forcing..…
Eventually, three Americans among the captives held by the in 2014 and 2015, together with several other foreign hostages, would be beheaded in Syrian desert, with the killings recorded Islamic State propaganda videos.. ... Turkey considers Syrian Kurdish fighters terrorists aligned..…
Beginning in the 1960s, Syrian government began moving other populations to Kurdish territory to challenge Kurdish dominance there, sparking Kurdish resentment.. The devastation wrought by Islamic State such minority within Kurdish community, and sexual..…
Trump, with all the care and forethought of a tweet (it’s not for nothing that English has the idiom “bird brain”), has withdrawn US forces from the border areas of Syria and abandoned America’s decent, democratic, pluralistic, secular ally to the tender mercies of the Islamic Brotherhood’s..…
Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch and other groups warned about everything from massive new flows of refugees to conditions for detained Islamic State fighters from Syria's civil war.. Turkish forces began Syria's northeast on Wednesday to clear out Kurdish militias and return..…
-allied Kurdish fighters who helped quash Islamic State forces in the region. ..…
The United States is abandoning an ally in the fight against Islamic State. Kurdish militias were one of just two groups that actually did some fighting. ..…
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces begin advance on self-declared Islamic State, coalition air support. ... With Islamic State ousted, life returns to Syrian town. Al-Hol's capture was victory for Kurdish-Arab alliance, and chance for locals to breathe easy again. ..…
Pelosi said in a statement that Trump's decision is 'a deeply disturbing development that betrays our Kurdish allies' who have been Washington's closest allies on the ground in fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as ISIL, ISIS or Daesh). . ..…
the US to United Nations said Turkey faced unspecified consequences if it did not meet its pledge to protect vulnerable populations or contain Islamic State fighters.. Kurdish-led Syria said prison that holds the most dangerous criminals from more and Turkey's attacks on its prisons..…
Turkey’s assault on Kurdish-led forces follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from the area. . ___ . 2:55 p.m. . ... Turkey’s president says his country would handle “as required” Islamic State militants in areas it captures during its current..…
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