Republican Senator Lindsey Graham had been among Trump's staunchest critics during the start of Kurdish ordeal, saying Trump appears to be hell-bent on making the same mistakes Syria as President Obama made Iraq... ..…
Although Turkey and Russia, who now control that swath of Syrian territory, have pummeled Kurdish fighters, Trump claimed without evidence that his policy would be saving Kurdish lives. . Defense Secretary Mark Esper has arrived in Baghdad as US troops leaving Northern Syria head to neighboring..…
Tel Aviv Is Only Interested in Weakening Iraq: The Kurdish Referendum By Edu Montesanti, October 06, 2017 . . ..…
And the Kurdish militia (the YPG, or People’s Protection Unit) is a leftist group which has aligned itself with the U.S. in Syria, and carved a separate zone for Kurds. . ... But Kurds have also suffered at the hands of their own tribal (as in Iraq) or political (as in Syria)..…
The situation is worse in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, where the Kurds are a minority people subjected to ethnically targeted violations of human rights. . Iraq: In 1986–89, Saddam Hussein conducted a genocidal campaign in which tens of thousands were murdered and thousands of..…
Trump ordered the bulk of the approximately 1,000 U.S troops Syria to withdraw after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in phone call that his forces were about to invade Syria to push back Syrian Kurdish fighters. United States pulled its troops out of Iraq in 2011 and they..…
often assumed to be unfortunate side effect of the invasion of Iraq, Washington's of the disintegration into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish fiefdoms looked suspiciously intentional. ..…
Footage was released of US armored vehicles carrying troops into Iraq, with Iraqi Kurdish sources confirming that American troops had crossed into the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region. . . . . ..…
Thousands of Islamic State's jihadists have been killed in airstrikes conducted by US-led against Islamic State and the ground offensives by Iraqi armed forces and allied militias Iraq and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces Syria.. ..…
To wit, the Iraqi Kurds of the Barzani clan were directly involved in the original ISIS conquest of western Iraq in the summer of 2014. . ... Indeed, Kurdish fighters from Iraq and Turkey settled in their homes and took possession of their lands. ..…
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