Syrian Kurds as pawns in Turko-Russian game?
Text With tensions high between Turkey and Russia, Moscow's intervention risks drawing the Kurds into the geopolitical game and escalating divisions within the Syrian resistance.Moscow's military...
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Lines drawn in imperial scramble for Syria
Text The US and Russia each groom their own rival proxy forces to fight ISIS and the Nusra Front—which in turn pledge to turn Syria into "another Afghanistan."syriamap.jpg.gifUS Air Force C-17 cargo...
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Obama's nuclear upgrade: Euro-missiles redux?
Text Revelation of Washington's plan to station missile-capable nuclear warheads in Germany was met with a Russian threat to deploy ballistic missiles in the Baltic enclave of...
View ArticleUS embraces Iran as (ironic) 'peace' partner in Syria
Text Iran is invited to the US-backed Vienna "peace" talks on the Syria war—seeming to confirm suspicions that cooperation against ISIS was the real motive behind the nuclear deal.Here we go. Another...
View ArticleUS sells Turkey 'smart bombs' (to use against Kurds)
Text The Pentagon announces the sale of 900 "smart bombs" to Turkey just as Ankara is preparing to move against US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria.The Pentagon announced on Oct. 29 that the US State...
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Cold War déja vu in NATO mega-maneuvers
Text NATO is just winding up its biggest military exercise since the end of the Cold War—Operation Trident Juncture, involving 36,000 troops from over 30 countries.mediterranean.jpgNATO is just...
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Contradictions of post-Paris anti-ISIS convergence
Text Russia and France say they will cooperate against ISIS in Syria, but Turkey is undermining unity between Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish forces.warplane.jpgIn the wake of the Paris attacks, the...
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Russian warplane down: heightened contradictions
Text After Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane over Syria, Vladimir Putin openly accused Ankara of backing ISIS—echoing a charge Kurdish forces have been making for months.kurdishmap.jpgTurkey shot...
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Opening shots of new Russo-Turkish war?
Text The situation in northern Syria is escalating amid Russo-Turkish brinkmanship, with Turkmen villages coming under intense Russian bombardment.turkey_sm_2013.jpg.gifThe situation on Turkey's...
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Syria: civil wars in the civil war
Text A growing split between secular and Islamist elements of the FSA is unfortunately mirrored by a breach between Kurds and Ankara-backed Arab and Turkmen forces.syriamap.jpg.gifA split in the...
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Russo-Turkish pipeline route on hold amid crisis
Text With Moscow threatening sanctions against Turkey, plans for a Russo-Turkish free trade zone and joint gas pipeline route appear be on hold.turkish-stream.jpgWith Moscow threatening sanctions...
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Turkish pot calls Russian kettle black...
Text Turkey's prime minister accuses Russia of "ethnic cleansing" with air-strikes targeting Turkmen in Syria—as Ankara continues to attack Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iraq alike.syriamap.jpg.gifThe...
View ArticleSyria and Ukraine wars headed for convergence?
Text Russian naval forces got in a confrontation with Turkish vessels in the Black Sea, with control of contested oil platforms off the Crimean Peninsula at issue.Disturbing reports emerged Dec. 14...
View ArticleSyria: 'peace deal' signals escalation (of course)
Text The UN resolution on a democratic transition in Syria assumes this can happen under Assad's rule. The US is now openly blocking with Russia over support for the dictatorship.It is looking like...
View ArticleKurds caught in Russo-Turkish game... again
Text Amid counterinsurgency against Kurds in Turkey, Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtaş is received in Moscow—now executing a grisly counterinsurgency in Syria.While the world media cheer...
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Syria: 'peace' declared amid carnage, starvation
Text The State Department named "bringing peace" to Syria as a 2015 accomplishment—as Russian air-strikes continue on schools, and starvation sets in behind rebel lines.syriamap.jpg.gifRussian aerial...
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Obama's seventh year: a World War 4 Report scorecard
Text World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.obamabriefing.jpgWorld War 4...
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Syria: will fall of Aleppo internationalize the war?
Text As Syrian regime troops and Russian warplanes advance on Aleppo, some 100,000 have fled the city for the Turkish border—prompting Turkey and Saudi Arabia to threaten intervention....
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Syria: 'ceasfire' signals escalation (of course)
Text The Syrian ceasefire announced in Munich does not apply to US or Russian air-strikes on "terrorists," and comes as Turkey and Saudi Arabia are preparing military intervention.syriamap.jpg.gifOn...
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Syrian Kurds declare autonomy —at what price?
Text Kurds officially declared their own "Federation of Northern Syria"—to be swiftly denounced by the Assad regime, the opposition and regional powers alike.rojava1.jpgSyrian Kurds on March 17...
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