Kurds
US moves to soothe Turkey, endangering ties with Kurdish allies
The Trump administration has told Turkey it will move to rein in Kurdish fighters that have been the backbone of the US campaign against...
A Lavrio, un camp d’exilé.e.s kurdes auto-géré
Mars 2, 2018
Un reportage effectué à Lavrio, à 60 km environ au sud-est d’Athènes, en décembre 2017, lors d’une longue halte dans un camp...
5 pays se seraient accordés sur le découpage du Proche-Orient lors...
28.02.2018
Tandis qu’une «réunion secrète» d’un groupe de cinq pays sur l’avenir de la région proche-orientale a été évoquée par certains médias, l’ex-ambassadeur turc à...
Assad in Afrin: Possible ramifications of Damascus’ deployment
By Paul Iddon
22/2/2018
On Tuesday, pro-Syrian government forces, also known as Syrian National Defense Forces (NDF), arrived in the Kurdish enclave of Afrin following calls...
Syria: The Tillerson ploy yields first results
Turkey denies reports Syria will help YPG in Afrin
Turkey says reports Syrian army will aid Kurdish YPG in Afrin are false, adding such a...
Middle East: The unending War
'What We Are Seeing is the Collapse of the Attempt to Destroy Syria'
14.02.2018
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel would not accept any...
Instead of Turning East, Turkey is Going It Alone
By Nick Danforth
February 13, 2018
Since Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in late 2002, there’s been talk about the...
“Russians killed” in major US Syria strike
Many are feared dead in a US strike on a government base in Deir el-Zor province
14/02/2018
Russian media say an unknown number of private Russian...
Lavrov: US want to stay in Syria
Russia does not rule out that the United States intends to stay in Syria for a long time, if not forever, Lavrov says
February 13,...
Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria runs into problems: mountains...
By Louisa Loveluck and Zakaria Zakaria
Washington Post
February 10, 2018
ANTAKYA, Turkey — A Turkish offensive against Kurdish fighters has bogged down in the mountains and...