AMMAN, Jordan — The band of Western hostages, enduring in the heart of Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate, somehow summoned the humor to nickname the four guards with English accents. ..…
Turkey invaded northeastern Syria on Wednesday, days after President Trump appeared to green light the in conversation with his Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. ..…
In other impeachment-related news, Gordon Sondland, the US Ambassador to European Union and Trump loyalist now says he will testify to Congress, up for his scheduled hearing. ..…
In Iran and Turkey they live under central government rule. Reuters (2018) The Kurds are so serious about devolving power to the local level that Rojava’s charter requires each of its three regions to have its own flag. ..…
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday, There is heavy fighting between SDF and Turks on different fronts, mostly from Tal Abyad to Ras al-Ayn... ..…
Ankara views US-backed YPG militants as a terrorist organization tied to the homegrown Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group, which has been seeking an autonomous Kurdish region in Turkey since 1984. . The YPG also constitutes the backbone of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces..…
United Nations spokesman Farhan Haq said aid groups would have “scale-up at a time of crisis” and urged the region’s armed forces to keep the Turkey-Syria border open so that aid trucks could bring food, medicine and other gear to those affected by fighting. . ..…
Protesters directing their anger at the government of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mehdi and the political parties dominating Iraqi politics since U.S invasion. ..…
Medes spoke language of the branch of Iranian languages, close to Old Persian, the ancestor of Farsi. ..…
French President Emmanuel Macron, taking stock of the situation, warned “Turkey is putting millions of people at humanitarian risk. In doing so, Turkey will be responsible in front of the international community for helping Daesh (so-called Islamic State) building a..…
EU President Tusk Calls on Ankara to Cease Activities Syria and Cyprus EEZ.. ..…
If members of Congress think that United States should take up arms against Turkey on behalf of Kurds, they should say so. ..…
China may have interned as many as Muslim Uyghurs Xinjiang in attempt to suppress their desire for autonomy and perhaps even independence this may just increase that desire.. by Rémi Castets ... ..…
The homeland of Kurdish people of Syria Rojava is being invaded by Erdogan regime. ..…
Turkey, Syria, Kurds, and American Foreign Policy Establishment., Iran, Kurds, Syria, Turkey.. ..…
Military operations against ISIS Syria have ground to halt since Turkish military crossed the border to launch assault on U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Wednesday... ..…
Political journalists and commentators called out President Donald Trump for sending 2,000 troops to Saudi Arabia Friday, just days after he pulled the U.S. military from Syria ahead of a military operation from Turkey, abandoning Kurdish allies. . “Just so I’m clear, we are going to end..…
This is not WW1, and SF people are not several hundred feet in the air with Morse code key underneath giant balloon tethered to the ground.. ..…
Yemen will rank the poorest country in the world, with 79 percent of the population living under the poverty line and 65 percent classified as extremely poor, .. ..…
TEHRAN - Rifts widening in the US policymaking circle with House and administration officials continued fury over President Donald Trump's Syria pullout decision while some others say the decision is meant to be diversion from Ukrainegate.. ..…
Protest movements led by Extinction Rebellion and School Strike for Climate increase number and scope, demands for action are repeated, louder and louder, anger and anxiety mounts. ..…
Black and white thinking, is associated with fanaticism from Christianity to Islamic world.. ..…
Syria, has taken new turn of war between Turkey and Kurds.. ..…
By history and circumstance to act, Both scions of overbearing tycoons, both notorious for making enemies and refusing to back down, both at odds with the bellicose wings of their own parties, the biggest difference between Kennedy and Trump, foreign policy-wise, is that only Trump has been permitted. ..…
Turkey’s Defense Ministry said 228 militants had been killed so far in the offensive. ..…
Senior Cleric Warns Turkey Against Grave Consequences of Attacking Syria . . TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami deplored Turkey’s so-called Operation Peace Spring in Northern Syria as an “act of aggression”, and called on..…
“It is unlikely that the so-called ‘safe zone’ in northeast Syria as envisaged by Turkey would satisfy international criteria for refugee return as laid down by UNHCR. ... The German ambassador stressed that it was “unlikely that the so-called ‘safe zone’ in northeast..…
The president has been roundly criticized by Democrats and Republicans for moving U.S. troops back from northern Syria so they would not get harmed during the planned incursion against the Kurds, whom Turkey’s government see as terrorists. . ___ . 9 p.m. . ..…