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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…

The One Insurmountable Obstacle to Peace in Syria

December 7, 2019 Opinion

The Turkish army did not invade Syria to attack the Kurds. That’s simply not true. The actual target of the Turkish operation (Peace Spring) was a group of separatist militants (The YPG) who have wage…

Leaked Memo Shows the U.S. Still Does Not Understand Turkey’s Syria Operation

November 23, 2019 Opinion

An ‘internal memo’ that was intentionally leaked has blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision for the U.S. military to withdraw from Syria, or more accurately, relocate from northern Syria to th…