the new kurdish nationalism

For weeks prior to the announcement, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had been threatening to invade areas of northern Syria controlled by Kurdish militants. ... At the time, ISIS had just swept through northern Iraq and Syria, capturing large stretches of..

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trump endorses turkish military operation in syria, shifting u.s.

Many Syria experts criticized the White House decision and cautioned that American abandonment of its Kurdish allies could widen the eight-year Syrian conflict and prompt the Kurds to ally with the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad to combat the much larger and more technologically advanced..

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