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Russia sets up air base in Qamishli, challenges US/Israeli air force control of northeast Syria

Nov 17, 2019 @ 10:02Nov 24, 2019 @ 21:29 Diane Shalem 4860 Views Kurds, northeastern Syria, Russian Qamishli air base

The arrival this week in Qamishli of 50 Russian military trucks, 300 troops and hardware confirmed the revised US intelligence

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Turkey launches troop offensive in northeastern Syria

Oct 9, 2019 @ 20:12Oct 19, 2019 @ 10:23 Diane Shalem 5561 Views Kurds, Turkish operation in NE Syria, US-Turkish safe zone

As President Recep Erdogan announced the start of a Turkish operation in northeastern Syria on Wednesday, Oct. 9, the Kurdish-led

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US prevents Turkish invasion of Syria by CAOC intelligence cutoff

Oct 8, 2019 @ 8:16Oct 19, 2019 @ 10:28 Diane Shalem 6563 Views Donald Trump, Kurds, US-Turkey-Syria

DEBKAfile sources refute the overblown reporting of a major US pullback from northeastern Syria and reveal that after 100-150 troops

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Erdogan to stage anti-Semitic show trial of Kurds charged as “US and Israel terror agents”

Feb 3, 2019 @ 18:42Feb 9, 2019 @ 11:26 Diane Shalem 7303 Views Erdogan, Israel, Kurds, Turkish intelligence MIT, US

Turkey’s MIT this week arrested Dawud Baghestani, Chairman of the Israeli-Kurdish Friendship Association and editor of the Israel-Kurd Magazine with

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Erdogan calls for joint Turkish-Russian-Iranian control of US pullout from Syria in face of Moscow’s veto

Jan 9, 2019 @ 19:54Jan 19, 2019 @ 11:46 Diane Shalem 9482 Views Erdogan, John Bolton, Kurds, northeast Syria, Russia, Vladimir Putin

Like Washington, Moscow is averse to the Turkish army moving into northern Syrian Kurdish lands after the Americans leave. Yet

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Fresh Turkish-US crisis: Erdogan refuses to see visiting US adviser, again threatens Kurds

Jan 8, 2019 @ 13:54Jan 19, 2019 @ 11:48 Diane Shalem 7246 Views Erdogan, John Bolton, Kurds, Syria, US withdrawal from Syria

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan waited for John Bolton, US national security adviser, to land in Ankara on Tuesday, Jan 8,

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Scrap over Manbij opens door for Russia and Assad’s troops to take control of NE. Syria

Dec 28, 2018 @ 19:38Jan 2, 2019 @ 13:01 Diane Shalem 8708 Views Bashar Assad, Erdogan, Euphrates, Kurds, Manbij, northeastern Syria, UAE

One of Bashar Assad’s best weeks in years – and one of Tayyip Erdogan’s worst – peaked on Friday, Dec.

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Rev Guards fire 8 missiles from Iran at ISIS in E. Syria

Oct 1, 2018 @ 9:23Oct 10, 2018 @ 13:38 Diane Shalem 7625 Views E. Syria, IRGC, ISIS, Kermanshah, Kurds, missiles

Tehran state media reported that on Monday, Oct. 1,  IRGC missiles targeted the “headquarters of the terrorists” east of the Euphrates in

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Putin meets Erdogan at Sochi to cut a separate deal for Idlib

Sep 17, 2018 @ 10:50Sep 20, 2018 @ 9:32 Diane Shalem 7582 Views Erdogan, Idlib offensive, Kurds, northern Syria, Sochi, US oil sanctions, Vladimir Putin

President Vladimir Putin will insist on an early date for the Idlib offensive when he meets Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan at

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French troops deploy to Manbij, join Trump’s stop-Turkey line in Syria

Apr 4, 2018 @ 11:44Apr 11, 2018 @ 13:07 Diane Shalem 19525 Views Donald Trump, French forces, Haydar al-Abadi, Iraq, Kurds, Syria, US Marines

DEBKAfile Exclusive: French special ops troops have moved into two US Syrian bases, Manbij and Remelin, as the US boosts

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