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Turkey continues to face scrutiny over Afrin's olive oil
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More reports have emerged accusing Turkey of selling olive oil it took from Afrin to European countries despite the Turkish-backed Afrin council denying any wrongdoing. Nasir...
By Nicholas Heras
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Kurdish-backed council welcomes US decision to keep troops in Syria
Amjad Othman, official spokesperson and founding member of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) said on Friday that the organization welcomes the US decision to keep troops in ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Kurds Laud US Decision to Keep Some Troops in Syria
Kurdish groups fighting Islamic State militants in Syria welcomed the U.S. decision to keep up to several hundred troops in Syria, saying the move would be crucial to keeping ...
By Nicholas Heras
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After Trump announces plan to let troops stay in Syria, experts worry about ‘in-between’ approach
President Donald Trump’s decision to leave 200 of the 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria for a peacekeeping mission signals yet another shift in the administration’s chaotic Syria pol...
By Nicholas Heras
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‘You took us to the middle of the road and left us there’: Syrian Kurds fear more upheaval as US troops plan withdrawal
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When Abu Amar heard the news that the US would be pulling its troops from Syria, an old love song drifted into his head. “It goes: ‘You took me to the middle of the road and y...
By Nicholas Heras
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Civilian shield stalls final liberation by US-backed forces of last IS-held pocket
Fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told Kurdistan 24 reporter Ekrem Salih on Monday that the presence of civilians in a small area of about 600 square meters in ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Kurdistan Syrian Kurds call on EU countries to help create safe zone in Syria
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Top officials from the Kurdish-backed administrations in northeastern Syria have called on European states to create an international force and safe zone and not to abandon th...
By Nicholas Heras
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The US held a global summit to isolate Iran. America isolated itself instead.
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A US-led conference in Warsaw this week that was intended to isolate Iran has ended up isolating America instead — highlighting one of the central problems of President Donald...
By Eric Brewer
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Jihadist defeat, US Syria pullout on table at coalition talks
Defence ministers from the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group meet on Friday in Munich to discuss how to reorganise in Syria after the defeat of the last pocket...
By Nicholas Heras
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US House approves full American withdrawal from Yemen
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In an unprecedented move, the US House of Representatives approved on Wednesday a resolution halting the US role in Yemen and directly challenging President Donald Trump’s mil...
By Nicholas Heras
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U.S. ally Turkey looks to Russia and Iran to protect its interests
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As Trump administration officials presided over the second day of an international conference in Warsaw dominated by calls to ratchet up pressure on Iran, one longtime U.S. al...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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What next as battle against ISIL nears an end?
It is the moment Abu Jaber al-Shaiti has waited for more than four years. A few more hours, a few hundred metres, and he will have his revenge. In 2014, as Islamic State of I...
By Nicholas Heras
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Like Trump, troops say we should watch Iran — but maybe not by increasing our forces in Iraq
Troops agree with President Donald Trump that we should keep an eye on Iran — but that doesn’t mean they want a big presence in Iraq to do so, the results of a recent Military...
By Nicholas Heras
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Kurdish Commander Laments American Betrayal, Urges U.S. to ‘Be Loyal’
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Polat Can spent much of the past five years fighting the Islamic State alongside other members of the U.S.-led coalition in northern Syria. A commander in the Kurdish People’s...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump's policy on ISIS and the Middle East
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Nicholas Heras from The Center for a New American Security joins CBSN to discuss President Trump's policies in the Middle East, his approach to the fight against ISIS and U.S....
By Nicholas Heras
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Intel: Why plans to send 10,000 fighters to the Turkey-Syria border are seen as a ‘game’
As Turkey and the Syrian Kurds lobby the Donald Trump administration on rival visions of a safe zone in northern Syria, a new proposal to deploy 10,000 Arab and Kurdish fighte...
By Nicholas Heras
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Kurdish lobby struggles to slow US pullout from Syria
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Reeling from President Donald Trump’s decision to pull US troops out of Syria, the political wing of the Pentagon-backed Kurdish group that has spent the past four years fight...
By Nicholas Heras
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Iraq Fortifies Syrian Border to Keep Out Islamic State Militants
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As U.S.-backed forces close in on Islamic State’s last territory in Syria, some militants are fleeing to Iraq—using longstanding smuggling networks and posing as nomadic sheph...
By Nicholas Heras
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Press Release
Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
A Realistic Path for Progress on Iran: 12 Guiding Principles to Achieve U.S. Policy GoalsWashington, January 30 - The Trump administration has adopted an aggressive Iran strategy. Under this approach, the United States seeks to achieve – via the application of max...
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The once vast ISIS ‘caliphate’ is now reduced to a pair of villages in Syria
A pair of dusty villages in the Syrian desert is all that remains of the vast expanse of territory the Islamic State once called its caliphate, and the complete territorial de...
By Nicholas Heras
