The US-Saudi plan to withdraw Iranian troops from Syria
The US and Saudi Arabia have been conspiring with one another to engineer a series of crises that could prompt Iran to pull back its…
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Kerry warns of new challenge in securing Iraq after Islamic State
The battlefield momentum in Iraq and Syria has shifted against Islamic State, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday, but the international community…
Turkey to file extradition request for Gülen from US this week, President Erdoğan says
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, giving his first media interview since Friday’s dramatic coup attempt, said Monday that his government would submit a written request for…
Rebels fear Assad victory in Syria as noose tightens around Aleppo
Just over a month into Syria’s uprising in 2011, the leader of Lebanon’s Druze sect, Walid Jumblatt, travelled to Damascus to visit Syria’s then security…
Sinan Baykent: Armenia is trying to achieve the status quo ante of the Lausanne Treaty which gave Turkey its independence
The events of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire are perceived as a “genocide” by certain academic and political circles. Turkey rejects such an interpretation of…
Daesh captured 900 Kurds from Aleppo in three weeks
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that Daesh has been detaining around 900 Kurds for three weeks in the governorate of…
Kurdish Forces Clash with Iran Troops on Iraqi Border
Kurdish rebels on Friday clashed with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards for a second consecutive day in a border area between Iraq and Iran, Kurdish officials and…
Sergey Balmasov:For Assad the capture of Raqqa by the Kurds and allied Arab forces is the worst option
Assad’s forces and coalition forces under the auspices of the United States are racing to be the first to take Raqqa. What are the motives…