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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,...
Chaos and High Risks in Syria
Dozens of Russians Are Believed Killed in U.S.-Backed Syria Attack
By Ivan Nechepurenko, Neil MacFarquhar
and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
February 14, 2018
Four Russian nationals, and perhaps...
Turkey threatens Greece in the Aegean, harasses ENI drillship off Cyprus
February 12, 2018
Turkey’s top general, Chief of General Staff, Hulusi Akar, has claimed that Turkey has the capacity to keep the Aegean Sea “under...
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...
On Northern Syria Front Line, U.S. and Turkey Head Into Tense...
By ROD NORDLAND
FEB. 7, 2018
A correspondent and a photographer of The New York Times, traveling with American generals in northern Syria, visited a city...