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  • Syria regime says Kurdish fighters withdraw from Manbij

    01/02/2019 1:28:55 PM PST · by BeauBo · 20 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | January 2, 2019 | AFP
    The Syrian regime said Wednesday hundreds of Kurdish fighters had withdrawn from Manbij near the border with Turkey... "The information (we have) indicates that nearly 400 Kurdish fighters have left Manbij so far." The People's Protection Units (YPG), the main Kurdish militia in Syria, last week invited regime forces to deploy to the key city following a shock announcement that American troops would leave the country.
  • Column: Trump's top 10 successes of 2018

    01/01/2019 12:53:58 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 8 replies
    The Morning Sun ^ | January 1, 2019 | Marc A. Thiessen, The Washington Post
    In his second year in office, the list of extraordinary things President Trump has done, for good and ill, continued to grow. Today, I offer my annual list of the 10 best things Trump has done in office. (In my next column, I will give you my list of the 10 worst.) 10. He has secured the release of 19 people, including 16 Americans, from foreign captivity. When Pastor Andrew Brunson was freed by Turkey, he became the 19th captive released thanks to Trump. Others include: four held by North Korea; an aid worker and her husband held by Egypt;...
  • Turkish interior minister calls massacres of Alevis “theatre”

    01/01/2019 11:03:52 AM PST · by Texas Fossil · 2 replies
    Ahval (Events) ^ | Dec 31 2018 | None Stated
    During a tirade against outlawed Kurdish militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has referred to two of the bloodiest massacres in Turkish Republican history as “theatre” invented to “incite unrest.”“Those old enough will remember the events in Çorum and Maraş. Dozens of our citizens were killed. It was complete theatre, designed to incite unrest,” Soylu said.“We are living through 40 years of PKK incitement,” the interior minister added. It is unclear what link the minister was attempting to make between the massacres and the Kurdish militant group, which did not become launch its insurgency...
  • US forces a fifth military base in Kurdistan

    12/30/2018 9:51:59 AM PST · by gandalftb · 19 replies
    almaalomah ^ | December 20, 2018 | Staff
    (arabic - use google translate) "A security source in Arbil, Kurdistan, the establishment of US forces a new base, is the fifth of its kind in the region........" "In the Shaklawa district northeast of Arbil, within the plan to increase the number of US troops stationed in the northern regions of the country." Local officials in Anbar province, west of Iraq, revealed in previous statements to Al-Maaloumah that American forces had established two new bases in Qaim district adjacent to the Iraqi-Syrian border.
  • Graham: Withdrawal of US troops in Syria could lead to Kurdish deaths

    12/30/2018 12:26:05 PM PST · by Navy Patriot · 39 replies
    CNN Communist News ^ | December 30, 2018 | Devan Cole
    Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that withdrawing US troops from Syria could directly result in the deaths of Kurdish people there and that he plans to make a case to President Donald Trump today to reconsider his plans. "There are three things important for this country. Number one, make sure that ISIS never comes back in Syria," Graham said to CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "We need to keep our troops there. They're inside the ten-yard line in defeating ISIS, but we're not there yet. If we leave now, the Kurds are going to get...
  • Brunson release spotlights the rot in Turkish politics and judiciary

    10/13/2018 8:04:25 PM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 7 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/13/18 11:30 AM EDT | Michael Rubin, opinion contributor
    On October 12, 2018, a Turkish court freed U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson whose arrest on terrorism charges just over two years ago had fueled a diplomatic crisis. Since July, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had collectively tweeted about Brunson’s case almost two dozen times. Even in hyper-partisan Washington, Brunson’s plight received bipartisan support. In a quiet meeting only later disclosed, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)  met  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to lobby for Brunson’s release. Brunson’s release reportedly comes after a  deal  negotiated by National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike...
  • U.S. withdrawal from Syria presents opportunity and risk for Turkey - Haaretz

    12/29/2018 1:03:08 PM PST · by Texas Fossil · 11 replies
    Ahval (Events) ^ | December 29, 2018 | none stated
    U.S. President Donald Trump reshaped U.S. policy in the Middle East by handing Ankara the job of finishing off Islamic State, in Syria in a move that poses both a risk/opportunity for Turkey, Israeli Haaretz newspaper wrote. Trump was expected to warn the Turkish president over his plan to launch a third crossborder attack targeting U.S.-backed Kurdish forces, namely the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northeast Syria, during a phone call 2-weeks ago. However, something unexpected happened, Haaretz said.Trump is reported to have asked if Ankara can ‘’clean up ISIS?’’ if the U.S. withdraws, with Turkey’s strongman responding  Turkish forces were...
  • Trump’s decision to pull forces out of Syria has upsides

    12/28/2018 4:51:54 AM PST · by SJackson · 15 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | December 21, 2018 | Caroline Glick
    On its face, Trump’s announcement that he is pulling US forces out of Syria seems like an unfriendly act toward Israel. But it isn’t. On its face, President Donald Trump’s announcement that he is pulling US forces out of Syria seems like an unfriendly act towards Israel. But it isn’t. Trump’s decision to pull US forces out of Syria is of a piece with outgoing US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley’s address on Tuesday to the UN Security Council regarding the Palestinian conflict with Israel. Both statements reflect the depths of the administration’s friendship and support for the State...
  • Syria Latest: Turkish Warning As Syrian Government Forces Reported Moving Into Kurdish Region

    12/28/2018 8:17:02 AM PST · by Nextrush · 5 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 12/28/2018 | Nextrush/Self
    "The YPG/YKK terrorist organization that controls the region by force does not have the right and the authority to make a statement and invite other elements on behalf of people in the region" Turkish Defense Ministry Statement 12/28/2018- "Due to the invading Turkish state's threats to invade northern Syria and displace its people similarly to al-Bab, Jarabulus and Afrin, we as the People's Protection Units, following the withdrawal of our forces from Manbij before, announce that our forces will be focusing on the fight against ISIS on all fronts in the east of the Euphrates. In conjunction with this, we...
  • Zumwalt: In Syria, U.S. Abandons Three Musketeers Role with Israel, the Kurds

    12/24/2018 4:25:26 AM PST · by familyop · 79 replies
    Breitbart News ^ | December 22, 2018 | James Zumwalt
    President Donald Trump’s announcement he will withdraw U.S. forces from Syria because the Islamic State (ISIS) has largely been defeated accomplishes two things — neither of which is positive. First, it undermines the security of two of our most stalwart Middle East allies, Israel and the Kurds. Second, it rewards our enemies, of which there are more than we openly acknowledge. Clearly, enemies list beneficiaries include the Iran/Syria/Russia alliance and ISIS... Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.), is a retired Marine infantry officer who served in the Vietnam war, the U.S. invasion of Panama and the first Gulf war...
  • MILITARY SITUATION IN SYRIA ON DECEMBER 30, 2018

    12/30/2018 3:17:29 PM PST · by BeauBo · 15 replies
    South Front (Russian) ^ | 30.12.2018 | South Front (Russian)
    US forces are reportedly evacuating their military base near al-Hasakah; The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) still press their operation against ISIS in the Hajin pocket.
  • Flashback 2016: Secretary of State John Kerry Admits President Obama Intentionally Armed ISIS

    12/24/2018 4:46:30 AM PST · by Texas Fossil · 12 replies
    The Conservative Treehouse ^ | December 19, 2018 | sundance
    On September 30th 2016 the New York Times quietly released a leaked audio recording of Secretary John Kerry meeting with multiple factions associated within Syria.The 40-minute discussion took place on the sidelines of a United Nations General Assembly in New York. The meeting took place at the Dutch Mission to the United Nations on Sept. 22nd 2016: […] Kerry’s off-record conversation was apparently with two dozen ‘Syrian civilians’, all from US backed opposition-linked NGO’s in education and medical groups supposedly working in ‘rebel-held’ (aka terrorist-held) areas in Syria.This opposition conclave also included ‘rescue workers’ which can only be ambassadors from...
  • Graham says 'I feel pretty good' about Syria after lunch with Trump

    12/30/2018 3:54:35 PM PST · by Kaslin · 24 replies
    Fox News.com ^ | December 30, 2018 | Greg Re, Samuel Champerlain
    Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters Sunday that "I feel pretty good about where we're headed" in Syria after suggesting that President Trump is "reconsidering" the planned pullout which had drawn bipartisan criticism and forced the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis. Graham emerged from the White House after a two-hour lunch with Trump and said the president "told me some things I didn't know that make me feel a lot better about where we're headed in Syria." "He promised to destroy ISIS. He's going to keep that promise," Graham said of Trump. "We're not there yet. But as I...
  • Syria. A Change in Tactics

    12/24/2018 6:53:05 PM PST · by bitt · 11 replies
    quodverum.com ^ | 12/24/2018 | Saul Montes-Bradley
    On January 3, 2014, ISIS, then a growing force mostly ignored by the Obama administration, took the Iraqi city of Fallujah; liberated years later by our Marines, at great cost, from the predecessors of ISIS then called al-Qa’ida in Iraq (Ansar al-Sunni, Ansar al-Islam). “A rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas that U.S. troops fought to pacify before withdrawing from Iraq two years ago…. The upheaval also affirmed the soaring capabilities of the Islamic...
  • The terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad reason the military wants to stay in Syria

    12/29/2018 1:26:58 PM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 104 replies
    NY Post ^ | December 29, 2018 | Steven W. Mosher
    On December 19, 2018, President Trump declared correctly that “we have won against ISIS,” and announced that the remaining 2,000 American troops in Syria would be withdrawn. The president has made the right decision. Having won the war against ISIS, he does not want to lose the peace by getting into a military conflict with the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s forces, or with the Iranians or the Russians, or even with the Turks for that matter. As the father of an Army officer who is in theater right now, I think I have a right to an opinion. And in...
  • Trump’s Syria decision was essentially correct. Here’s how he can make the most of it.

    12/28/2018 6:08:35 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 6 replies
    Washington Post - opinion section ^ | 12/27/2018 | Robert S. Ford
    Many observers have asserted that the withdrawal gives victory in Syria to Russia, Iran and the Syrian government. That’s absurd. Bashar al-Assad’s regime already controls about two-thirds of Syria, including all of the major cities. The portion of Syria that U.S. forces control alongside their Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) allies is mostly either desert or drought-prone plains. The oil fields there produce high-sulfur, low-value crude, and production has long been diminishing. Oil revenue made up only about 5 percent of Syrian gross domestic product before the 2011 uprising, according to the International Monetary Fund. In sum, holding northeastern Syria would...
  • Jeb Bush: Donald Trump Is Bad for Israel

    12/27/2018 11:23:18 PM PST · by conservative98 · 72 replies
    Jeb Bush Twitter ^ | 12/26/18 | Jeb Bush
    Donald Trump Is Bad for Israel via @NYTimes. Hopefully our President will reverse his decision to abandon Syria. https://t.co/nrZbhpV5Zj— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) December 27, 2018
  • Now Russia warns Turkey to stay OUT of Syria and let Assad take back areas vacated by [tr]

    12/27/2018 6:50:10 AM PST · by C19fan · 45 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | December 27, 2018 | Julian Robinson
    Russia has told Turkey to let the Syrian government take back areas vacated by US troops with Ankara preparing to clear Kurdish fighters from a town in the war-torn country. The Kremlin's Foreign Ministry said it expects the territory to be handed to Assad's forces after US president Donald Trump announced a pullout from the country last week - a move that surprised allies and sparked the resignation of two of his top aides. Turkey has said it is working with Washington to coordinate the withdrawal of US forces but remains 'determined' to clear US-allied Kurdish fighters from Manbij in...
  • Turning Turkey into a ‘zombie’ nation of undesirables

    11/29/2018 9:15:55 PM PST · by Texas Fossil · 12 replies
    Ahval (Events) ^ | Nov 12 2018 | Yavuz Baydar
    Recent row during a Turkish parliamentary commission meeting spoke volumes. “We are cleansing everybody,” said the legislative body’s chairman, a member of the Justice and Development Party. “Everybody” means all who disagree with the AKP. “Cleansing” is the pattern established by the party of dismissing “everybody” from state institutions, public office. With Turkey in the third year of the post-coup period, the purge has not slowed. Discontent is being voiced. “Look, esteemed chairman,” roared Kurdish MP Meral Danis Bestas, “when the time comes and when you become subject to criminal charges, I and my friends will not hesitate to come...
  • Here's What President Trump Told U.S. Troops in Iraq

    12/26/2018 4:13:06 PM PST · by Kaslin · 34 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 26, 2018 | Katie Pavlich
    President Trump and First Lady Melania made a surprise visit to Iraq Wednesday after leaving the White House late on Christmas. There, he spoke for nearly 20 minutes to approximately U.S. troops stationed at Al Asad Air Base and met with military leaders. According to the White House pool report, the group was made up "of about 100 mostly U.S. special operations troops engaged in combat operations in Iraq and Syria."During his remarks, the Commander-in-Chief encouraged U.S. service members to keep up the fight and vowed to continue the fight against ISIS from Iraq. "I want to come and pay my respects...