Kurds
US escalates war for annexation of Syria
By Bill Van Auken
25 January 2018
In its first National Defense Strategy document issued in over a decade, the Pentagon this month bluntly declared that...
Who Lost Turkey?
"Who Lost Turkey?" - The U.S.-Kurdish Project In Syria Endangers NATO
January 25, 2018
Back in the 1950s the U.S. political sphere was poisoned by a...
Turkish and US Forces Out of Syria Now!
January 21, 2018
Turkey today announced a military incursion whose stated aim is to push back armed Kurdish forces along its southern border with Syria...
Syrian Kurds Force Turkish Army to Retreat From its Territory –...
During the fighting, the Syrian Kurds forced Turkish troops and Ankara-backed rebels to retreat from their territory, representative of the Syrian Kurdistan in Moscow,...
Syria: The Battle of Afrin
Syria - Turks Attack Afrin, U.S. Strategy Fails, Kurds Again Chose The Losing Side
January 21, 2018
After negotiations between Russia/Syria and the Kurds of Afrin...
Turkish Warplanes Pound Kurds, Thousands of Syrian Rebels Bused to Border
Turkey Reports 108 Airstrikes Against Afrin District
By Jason Ditz
Posted on
January 20, 2018
Following up on a flurry of Friday artillery strikes against Kurdish forces in...
Turkey’s troops cross over into Syria’s Afrin
21/1/2018
Turkey's prime minister says ground troops have crossed into the Syrian enclave of Afrin as part of an operation against Syrian Kurdish armed group...
Syria – Tillerson Announces Occupation Goals – Erdogan Makes Empty Threats
January 18, 2018
For a few days now Turkey has threatened to invade Afrin (Efrin), a Kurdish held canton in the north-west of Syria.
Afrin (topographic)...
Syria: Turkey war planes launch strikes on Afrin
Turkish war planes have launched air strikes on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria in a move likely to raise tensions with the US.
Turkey wants...
The Destabilizer: Trump’s Escalating Threats Against Iran
by Patrick Cockburn
The US-Iran confrontation is already destabilising parts of the Middle East that were starting to settle down after the defeat of Isis...