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US reinforcements push back against Russian drive into NE Syria

Sep 19, 2020 @ 17:58Sep 27, 2020 @ 16:48 Diane Shalem 4726 Views Kurds, oil, reinforcements, Russian push, US forces in NE Syria

The US is reinforcing its 500-troop contingent in northern Syria with six Bradley fighting vehicles, 100 troops, fighter jets, Apache

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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 7661 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 11122 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 9270 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 12654 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 16074 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 12334 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 15807 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 13280 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 10373 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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