President Trump’s critics see his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria as the product of a dangerous impulsiveness that ignores strategic realities. They argue that it betrays the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the Kurdish force that helped the U.S. defeat Islamic State, while rewarding a dangerous autocrat, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. […]
How Obama’s Team Set Up Trump’s Syrian Dilemma by Michael Doran…
Turkey Has Legitimate Grievances Against the U.S…
Syria – Turkey Again Invades…
So it begins: “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that a Turkish military operation into Syria has started. Erdogan said on his official Twitter account Wednesday that the operation, named “Peace Spring,” has begun. He said the operation aims to eradicate “the threat of terror” against Turkey. Earlier, Turkish television reports said Turkish jets […]
Turkey’s Three-Stage Plan to Capture Northern Syria from Kurdish Militias, Lasting into 2020…
WAT?!!?: Syria Fuss Over Moving Fewer Than 25 U.S. Troops…
The change in U.S. policy in Syria that triggered a media storm on Monday involves the redeployment of fewer than 25 troops from the Turkish border to elsewhere in Syria, a State Department official was quoted as saying. The Times of Israel reported: “The United States has pulled back a “very small number” of troops […]