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trump's flawed turkey-first strategy betrays christians and yazidis

Turkey invaded northeastern Syria on Wednesday, days after President Trump appeared to green light the in conversation with his Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. ..

pathways to peace

They may not plant their flag or change the currency but when you have 800 USA bases in over 80 countries and you can dictate what currency someone sells their oil in and when you use the economic and financial banking system to cripple countries and you push which leaders you wish to control a country, such..

james l. gelvin – the conversation

A specialist in the modern social and cultural history of the Arab East, he is author of five books: The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, October 2017); The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2012, 2015); The Modern Middle East: A..

open forum: october 12, 2019

I’m not POTUS (yet) and I’ve never been to Syria, but I would suggest the 50 punters there would a token presence, if that. ... There are more Yanks in Turkey than in all of Syria, btw. . . . . Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare . #3182557, posted on October 12, 2019 at 11:50 pm . ..

ohchr / syria germany palestine

We are also hearing that areas Syria al-Bab, Azaz, and Jarablus, that were already under the control of Turkish forces and or affiliated armed groups allied non-State armed groups, are continuing to face lawlessness and criminality and violence. ... At United Nations briefing Geneva Rupert..

trumpelot

America was already in Syria. Whether it should have gone there in the first place or not is another question. ... Had Trump kept his troops there, Erdogan would not have invaded Syria. ..

un / syria security council

the US has not in any way endorsed the decision of the Government of Turkey to mount incursion into northeast Syria. ... Speaking to reporters New York, the US has not in any way endorsed the decision of the Government of Turkey to mount incursion into northeast Syria.. ..

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