The announcement comes about week after Vice President Mike Pence and Erdoğan nailed out ceasefire deal that gave Kurdish citizens living along the border with Syria five days to leave the area before Turkey stepped in and removed them.. ... Republican Senator Lindsey Graham had been..…
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..…
., Kurds reached Russian-brokered with the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad about the entry of Syrian into Manbij and Ayn al-Arab, both key Kurdish-held cities Syria, to confront Turkish operation... ... Syrian soldiers are seen in the town of Tall Tamr in the countryside of..…
But the battle between Washington-sponsored FSA and Washington-fostered ISIS Caliphate soon spilled over into Kurdish communities that had populated the regions along Syria- Turkey of Euphrates River.. ..…
As`ad AbuKhalil dissects the false U.S. show of humanitarian concern for people in Syria — Arab or Kurdish. . ... 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..…
Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria—another decision taken, by all appearances, in isolation and on a whim—similarly undermined the standing of the Department of Defense and the reputation of U.S. soldiers fighting in Syria, some of whom have expressed humiliation and embarrassment at..…
Earlier in the day, Putin and Erdogan signed memorandum of understanding, stating that Kurdish forces must withdraw from Turkish-ruled zone in northeast Syria within 150 hours, after. ... In another development, Republican of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Tuesday that..…
During the demonstration, Georgian Labor leader Shalva Natelashvili called on the Turkish army to “immediately leave northern Syria, where the heroic Kurdish people live.” ..…
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday threatened to resume Turkey’s military offensive in Syria “with greater determination” unless the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters is completed under a U.S...…
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. ... U.S troops Syria fought for five years..…
That commitment had been announced the day before, when Russia and Turkey agreed to joint patrols within 10 km of the Syria-Turkey border, and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) agreed to withdraw 30 km south of the border. . ..…
Although often assumed to be an unfortunate side effect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington’s oversight of the country’s bloody disintegration into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish fiefdoms looked suspiciously intentional. ... Syria has gone a similar way, mired in convulsive fighting..…
Indeed, U.S military officials told The New York Times they were stunned that the agreement allowed Turkey to annex portion of Syria, displace tens of thousands of Kurdish residents and wipe away years of counterterrorism gains against Islamic State... ..…
In order to understand the reason why Donald Trump acquiesced in the face of Turkish onslaught against Kurds Syria, Syria analyst Hassan Hassan came up with in his recent article for The Guardian.. ... Thousands of Islamic State's jihadists have been killed in airstrikes conducted by..…
In, the connections between Kurdish-dominated People's Protection Units, or YPG, Syria, with Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, Turkey are real, and seem unlikely to threaten the integrity of Turkish state. ..…
While Washington claims that the move is in the line with its alleged anti-terror campaign in Syria, analysts see it no more than an excuse to impose control over Syria's oil revenues, reminding that the US was well informed of the hazards of ISIL's revival when it abandoned the Kurdish..…
The pretext, of course, is that ISIS caliphate will come roaring back to life absent the armed resistance of Kurdish- SDF forces positioned Syria's northeast quadrant and that with these bombed-out, impoverished, no-count towns, villages, farms and dusty plains back under the flag of ISIS,..…
TEHRAN - Turkey criticized United States on Thursday for treating the commander of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces underlining continued tensions with Washington despite the end of its Syria... ..…
TEHRAN - Turkey criticized United States on Thursday for treating the commander of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces underlining continued tensions with Washington despite the end of its Syria... ..…
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