Russia sets up air base in Qamishli, challenges US/Israeli air force control of northeast Syria
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
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
DEBKAfile Exclusive: French special ops troops have moved into two US Syrian bases, Manbij and Remelin, as the US boosts
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