Syria: Debates won’t change reality - Middle East Institute, US
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Original article by Elizabeth Dent
Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images
Over the past few weeks, my colleagues at MEI have debated whether the U.S. should stay in Syria or leave. Here I’d make a different argument: that it doesn’t…
Turkey retreated from its safe zone red line, Erdogan acknowledges - Middle East Eye
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Original article by By Ragip Soylu.
A man looking at smoke rising close to the Syrian-Turkish border town of Jarabulus AFP
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged on Thursday for the first time that his country abandoned one of…
Syria: Kurds leave the Turkish border. Yes to buffer zone - DIRE, Italy
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Original article by Agenzia DIRE staff
Milizia Sdf accetta accordo Turchia-Usa: "fermerà attacchi Ankara"
ROMA – Le Sdf, le Forze democratiche di difesa, hanno annunciato che avvieranno le operazioni di ritiro dalle loro postazioni…
Database: Over 30 Turkish cross-border attacks against Rojava in 2019, only 1 attack targets Turkey
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A new Rojava Information Center database has
documented over thirty Turkish cross-border attacks targeting North East Syria
since the beginning of 2019 alone, with rocket and heavy weapons fire wounding
and killing at least 27 civilians.
In…
Syria: withdrawal of Kurdish militias in the north-east of the country - FRI, France
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Original article by Radio France Internationale
Mazloum Kobani, commandant en chef des Forces démocratiques syriennes (FDS), à majorité kurde, lors d'une réunion à Hasakah dans le nord-est de la Syrie, le 24 août 2019.DELIL SOULEIMAN…
Sleeper cell attacks continue in northeast Syria - K24, Iraqi Kurdistan
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Original article by Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Security forces rush to the scene of an explosion in Tabqa, Aug. 26, 2019.Photo: Raqqa Media Centre
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Sleeper cell attacks in areas the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces…
G7, Trump to Merkel: “Europe gets foreign fighters back” - ilGiornale, Italy
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Original article by Alessandra Benignetti
Il presidente americano, Donald Trump, dal summit di Biarritz ha ribadito l'appello ai leader europei per il rimpatrio dei jihadisti partiti dal Vecchio Continente che sono ancora prigionieri…
No permanent Turkish army posts will be in buffer zone: SDF spokesperson - Rûdaw, Iraqi Kurdistan
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Original article by Karwan Faidhi Dri
Turkish forces advance towards Idlib's Bab al-Hawa crossing on June 20, 2019. Photo: AFP
A spokesperson for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)…
Europe grapples with ISIS returnees and their families - Arab Weekly, UK, UAE, US
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Original article by Stephen Quillen
Legal and ethical conundrum. Belgian women Tatiana Wielandt (L) and Bouchra Abouallal, who joined ISIS in Syria, speak to reporters in Ain Issa, Syria, last March. (Reuters)
With…
Enemy at the gates - Catarsi Magazin, Catalonia
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Original article by Alvaro Urbano
Turquia prepara una ofensiva per acabar definitivament amb l'experiència d'un territori kurd autònom al nord sirià. El poble kurd, conscient de l'amenaça, es prepara per un embat que transcendeix…