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Does Damascus Regard The Syrian Armenians Reportedly Fighting In Azerbaijan As Traitors?

October 15, 2020

The Turkish reports alleging that the Kurdish-allied Syrian-Armenian militia “Nubar Ozanyan Brigade” is fighting in Azerbaijan on the side of the separatists prompt questions about exactly how Damascu…

Kurds Rebuild Ties with Washington to Even the Score with Ankara and Damascus

August 11, 2020

Opinion

The cultural identity of the Middle East where peoples lived for century without statehood has given the Kurds a particularly strong incentive to carry on their struggle for independence ove…

Ebb and Flow of Iran’s Influence in Iraq

July 30, 2020

Opinion

Getting caught between a rock and a hard place is an unenviable situation for a politician. A tragic case in modern times was that of Hafizullah Amin, the Cold War era Afghan communist politician who …

The Kurdish-Turkish Clashes In Vienna Aren’t As Clear-Cut As They Seem

July 2, 2020

Opinion

The Mainstream Media has attempted to misportray the latest Kurdish-Turkish clashes in Vienna as "ethnic clashes" in order to imply that the different ethnic groups that migrated to Austria from the R…

Turkey Begins its “Hunt” in Iraq

June 21, 2020

Opinion

After becoming actively involved in conflicts in Syria and Libya, on June 14, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched operation Claw-Eagle in Iraq against PKK’s (the Kurdistan Workers’ Party…

UAE-Turkish Rivalry Wreaks Regional Havoc in Libya and Syria

May 28, 2020

Opinion

The United Arab Emirates and Turkey are locked into a regional power struggle that has fuelled conflict in Libya and could spark renewed fighting in Syria. It is a struggle, like that between Saudi Ar…

How the Pro-War “Left” Fell for the Kurds in Syria

January 10, 2020

Opinion

The October decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from northeastern Syria did not only precipitate the Turkish offensive, codenamed ‘Operation Peace Spring’, into Kurdish…

The Israel Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi and Syrian Oil

December 18, 2019

Opinion

The outsized role of U.S. Israel lobby operatives in abetting the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil reveals how this powerful lobby also facilitates more covert aspects of U.S.-Israeli cooperation and the…