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AFRIN UPDATE: Turkish Planes Bomb City Center, TAF Continues to Shell Civilians

March 15, 2018

As Turkey shuts down Afrin's water and begins the seige of the predominately Kurdish city, civilian wounded and dead have been piling up. With Afrin's Kurdish resistance now decimated one must ask, what the rea...

Erdogan is the Real Terrorist in Syria, Not the Kurds

Orit ben Tzvi

January 22, 2018

Borders

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a brutal assault on the Kurdish majority Syrian region of Afrin on Saturday. Dubbed "Operation Olive Branch," the Turkish government insists it is cleaning out t...

WORLD WAR 3: Turkish Ground Forces Cross Into Syria, Now in Direct Combat with Kurds

Micha Gefen

January 21, 2018

Borders

It has begun. With one single directive to the Turkish forces, the Turkish ground forces stationed near Afrin have crossed into Syria and pushed the self destruct button on NATO as we know it. Reports out of...

Chaos Continues With Turkey Threatening to Invade Syrian Kurdistan

Micha Gefen

January 16, 2018

Borders

Turkey's President Erdogan responded to the announcement of the US intention to train a 30,000 strong Syrian Democratic Forces to man the Syrian borders with Turkey and Iraq with increased threats of destroying...

Will Turkey’s Showdown in Afrin Split NATO?

Micha Gefen

November 21, 2017

Borders

Turkey has always had a complex relationship with the rest of its NATO partners, ut during the current Erdogan period it has grown exceedingly problematic. With the weakening of US positions across he Middle E...

The Growing Intersection Between Turkey, Trump, Kurdistan, and the Golan

Gavriel Dan

July 20, 2017

Regional Analysis

The publication by Turkey of more than 200 US bases and places of presence across Western Kurdistan, now occupied by Syria drew the ire of the Trump administration and the US Defense establishment. The Turkish ...

Kurdish National Council in Syria Condemns Turkey’s Threats of Invasion

Micha Gefen

July 7, 2017

Borders, Regional Analysis

As Turkey continues to build up it armed forces in the Kilis Triangle in preparation of an invation of Syrian Kurdistan, the Kurdish National Council of Syria responded to the increased Turkish shelling of Afri...

SYRIAN CRISIS: Why Did the Syrian Kurds Just Forfeit Shengal to the Syrian Regime?

Micha Gefen

July 4, 2017

Borders, Regional Analysis

In a strange turn of events the Syrian regime has been allowed to move in and out of Shengal with permission of the Syrian Kurdish Militia (YPG). The YPG is being funded and supported by the Trump administrati...

Are the Kurds of Syria about to be Cornered by Turkey and Russia?

Micha Gefen

July 3, 2017

Borders, Regional Analysis

Enemies make great friends when interests converge. Turkey has announced the imminent launch of a serious military operation in the Afrin district of Northern Syria to wipe out the Kurdish militias in the area...

CRISIS IN SYRIA: US Forces Shoot Down Syrian Warplane for the First Time

Micha Gefen

June 19, 2017

Borders

The Syrian conflict moved one step closer to all out war between the US and Syria/Iran/Russia as the US led coalition shot down a Syrian government Su-22 fighter near the town of Tabqa as it was caught bombing ...

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