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The New York Review of Books
Feb 7, 2018
Syria’s New Normal
Mount Qasioun soars above the Damascus plain to a height of four thousand feet, a sheer escarpment that for millennia has borne witness...
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International Crisis Group 1
Feb 7, 2018
Israel, Hizbollah and Iran: Preventing Another War in Syria
What’s new? A new phase in Syria’s war augurs escalation with Israel. As the Assad regime gains the upper hand, Hizbollah probes the...
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Halis Yildirim
Feb 6, 2018
Stops attack on Afrin!!! Against the war for peace
After days of bombing, the Turkish military marched across the border and now tries to occupy Afrin with Jihadist mercenaries. Turkey...
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Washington Post
Feb 4, 2018
In Turkey, soaring support for Syrian offensive and rising anti-Americanism
By Erin Cunningham On a celebrity gossip show here, the hosts recently projected the Instagram profiles of Turkish actors and pop stars...
Ali Al-Mujahed and Sudarsan Raghavan | The
Feb 3, 2018
Yemen’s war is so out of control, allies are turning on one another
SANAA, Yemen — The three-year-old Yemen conflict has largely been cast as a war that pits an internationally recognized government...
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The Huffington Post (Huffpost)
Feb 3, 2018
Years Of U.S. Government Lies Could Soon Result In A Kurdish Massacre
The Trump administration is doubling down on a lie the U.S. government has promoted since it first began cooperating with the Syrian...
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International Crisis Group 1
Jan 31, 2018
Watch List 2018
Global Overview For Europeans who have chafed at the embrace of U.S. hyper-power, resented being relegated to the part of...
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IAGS
Jan 31, 2018
Call to sign and distribute: Stops attack on Afrin!!! Against the war for peace
Last week the Turkish military started bombing Afrin and now the Turkish military is threatening Afrin by marching across the border and...
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International Crisis Group 1
Jan 29, 2018
Turkey’s Syrian Refugees: Defusing Metropolitan Tensions
What’s new? Intercommunal violence between host communities and Syrian refugees increased threefold in the second half of 2017 compared...
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International Crisis Group 1
Jan 26, 2018
No Winners in Turkey’s New Offensive into Syria
A Turkish attack on the Kurdish “People’s Protection Units” (YPG), the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was long...
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Human Rights Watch
Jan 18, 2018
World Report 2018: Fighting for Rights Succeeds
Political leaders willing to fight for human rights principles showed that they could limit authoritarian populist agendas, Human Rights...
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International Crisis Group 1
Jan 16, 2018
The Iran Nuclear Deal at Two: A Status Report
What’s the issue? The 2015 Iran nuclear accord is as successful as it remains fragile. President Trump has warned he will scuttle it...