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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
In The News
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
In The News
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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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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U.S. ally Turkey looks to Russia and Iran to protect its interests
In The News
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’
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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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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
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Damascus ready to cooperate with Ankara if it withdraws from Syria
In The News
The Syrian government says it could cooperate with Turkey if it stops violating the Adana Agreement and withdraws from Syria, pro-government news agency SANA reported on Satur...
By Nicholas Heras
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US-backed SDF forces close to victory in last ISIS-held pocket: Monitoring group
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Wednesday claimed the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are getting close to defeating the Islamic State in the countr...
By Nicholas Heras
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US-Turkey talks on Syria intensify ahead of Erdogan’s meeting with Putin
In The News
US talks with Turkey about a safe zone in Syria intensified this week before a highly anticipated trip by Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Moscow on Wednesday. Followin...
By Nicholas Heras
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Uncertainty remains over future of Syria safe zones
A "safe zone" in Syria? The US tried it with Turkey before. It didn't work. President Donald Trump has tweeted twice about the possibility of establishing a "20 mile safe zon...
By Nicholas Heras
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ISIS-claimed attack on Americans in Syria renews criticism of Trump policy
Wednesday’s attack on U.S. forces in Syria has stoked fresh criticism over President Donald Trump’s claim that the so-called Islamic State has been defeated renewed debate ove...
By Nicholas Heras
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American Troops Die in Syria as Trump Team Squabbles
In The News
Two U.S. service members and two Department of Defense personnel were killed in an explosion in Syria on Wednesday, the U.S. military confirmed, even as President Donald Trump...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Turkey's Slap to the Face of America's Syria Policy
Press Note
Yesterday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the beginning of a military operation against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern and eastern Syria, crea...
By Nicholas Heras
