What the US and Turkey Really Want in Northern Syria

March 4, 2018

The Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria has become a new geopolitical pivot point in the conflict. With so many actors’ interests overlapping, whose positions will be weakened and whose solidifi…

Damascus Might Have Made a Grave Mistake by Helping the Eastern YPG Enter Afrin

February 25, 2018

Opinion

In hoping to play the “lesser evil” of the “federalist” Kurds off against the “greater evil” of the invading Turks, Damascus might have inadvertently committed a grave mistake by opening the Afrin gat…

Gauging the Aftermath of Turkey’s Great Intelligence Gaffe

September 9, 2017

Opinion

The latest scandal coming out of Turkey reads like a novel by Tom Clancy or John le Carre: spies, kidnapping, assassination attempts and terrorists. Given the seriousness of the allegations, the utter…

The Secrets of the Syrian War: the Kurdish Factor

July 25, 2017

Opinion

Are they on the verge of a historic triumph or a new national tragedy? It is tragic that throughout history it has been the Kurds’ fate to be deprived their own state, despite being one of the most po…

The Myth of the Kurdish YPG’s Moral Excellence

July 18, 2017

Opinion

A barbed criticism aimed at the International Socialist Organization, shown nearby, under the heading “If the ISO Existed in 1865” encompasses a truth about the orientation of large parts of the Weste…