It’s No Secret What Trump and His Allies Mean When They Talk About ‘Shock and Awe’
In fact, his aides and allies took pains to describe his initial flurry of executive activity as “shock and awe,” reviving an ...
History Suggests Kurds Are Key to Peace in the Middle East
The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Syria could allow Russia to keep its bases, new defense minister says
In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...
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In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich province is left in limbo
That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...
Three killed in Turkish drone attack on PKK members in northern Iraq
A Turkish drone strike on Thursday killed three members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said, the latest military pressure from Turkey ahead of an ...
Ancient Oceanic Plate Rips Apart Beneath Iraq and Iran
A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...
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Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan aim to jointly tackle ISIS, Ankara says
ANKARA – Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to ...
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Uncertainty in Turkey ahead jailed PKK chief's message
Turkey was gripped by uncertainty Wednesday ahead of an imminent statement by jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, ...
Islamic State members held for years in a Syria prison say they know nothing of the world
A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial ...