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Syrian Kurds: Threat of Turkish Action Impacts Anti-IS Fight
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Kurdish officials in Syria say any Turkish military action against them would affect their efforts in defeating Islamic State in its last stronghold in the country. The commen...
By Nicholas Heras
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US sees renewed leverage over Assad in Syria
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The Donald Trump administration believes it has leverage over Russia and Iran to bring the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria back to the negotiating table and rekindle the UN-le...
By Nicholas Heras
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Kurdish-backed council rejects Russian fears over Kurdish 'quasi-states'
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The Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) has called on Russia to focus on ending crimes by Turkish-backed groups in Afrin, rather than expressing worries that the Sy...
By Nicholas Heras
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What is stalling the fight against IS in east Syria?
The Islamic State group has fiercely defended its last holdout in eastern Syria against a more than two-month military offensive by a Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by a US-led ...
By Nicholas Heras
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US observation posts in Syria aim to block Turkish attacks on YPG
A US plan to establish military observation posts in Syria near the border with Turkey is designed to prevent Ankara from launching an all-out military assault on positions he...
By Nicholas Heras
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Reports: Turkey-backed Rebels Battle in Afrin
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Clashes in the Syrian town of Afrin are intensifying as Turkish-backed Syrian rebel factions continue fighting each other over influence in the northwestern town. The U.K.-ba...
By Nicholas Heras
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SDF says it arrested IS leader responsible for killing Raqqa tribal head
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An official from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Wednesday announced the arrest of an Islamic State (IS) leader he said was responsible for the recent killing of one of ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Four killed in armed attack on Manbij security forces
The media office of the Manbij Internal Security Forces on Tuesday said armed ‘gangs,’ at just past midnight on Tuesday, attacked the al-Shuweiha checkpoint on the outskirts o...
By Nicholas Heras
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Turkey threatens Syria's Kurds: A headache for the US?
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has renewed his threats to crush Syria's Kurds, this time in northeastern areas of the war-torn country where US forces are present. Tu...
By Nicholas Heras
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Kurdish SDF caught between Turkish, US aims in Syria
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The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) finds itself torn between competing war aims of its US allies and Turkish opponents as the SDF declared a pause in the bat...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Pentagon Used To Hide US Troops In Syria. Now It's Posting Videos Of Them On Twitter.
This time last year, the US military was refusing to admit that there were four times as many troops in Syria as it had disclosed previously, insisting they were serving as te...
By Nicholas Heras
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CNAS Experts Comment on New Assad Regime Offensive
The Assad regime with Russian and Iranian support announced this weekend its new offensive in Greater Idlib – a movement that could become the most catastrophic humanitarian d...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Syria’s fracturing conflict escalates as Russia and Iran face higher costs
TUNIS - Syria’s northern theatre illustrates the risks involved in the fracturing of the 7-year-old conflict that has defied all international attempts to stop the bloodshed. ...
By Nicholas Heras
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US Defense Secretary says attacks on Afrin distract Kurds from fight against Islamic State
Defense Secretary James Mattis on Sunday called the attacks by Turkey on Afrin, launched on 20 January, ‘a distraction’ and said that the Kurds inside the US-backed Syrian Dem...
By Nicholas Heras
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Air strikes batter Syria rebel enclave for fifth day
Fresh bombardment hit the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, AFP correspondents reported, the fifth straight day of a bombing campaign that has killed more than...
By Nicholas Heras
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Pentagon plays down Russian influence in Syria after clash with US-backed forces he
US Defense Secretary James Mattis today cast strong doubts on Russian influence over Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria following a bloody clash with US-backed forces. The reti...
By Nicholas Heras
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US coalition conducts airstrikes against Syrian regime troops
The US coalition in Syria conducted airstrikes against pro-Assad regime forces on Wednesday, in a fresh escalation between the two sides. In a statement released on Wednesday ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Tillerson travels to Middle East to talk post-IS stability
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey next week, on a trip focused on stabilization and reconstruction after t...
By Nicholas Heras
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Nikki Haley slams Russia over chemical weapons use in Syria
Less than a week after the Trump administration floated a military option in response to chemical weapons use in Syria, Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, s...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria’s Kurds push US to stop Turkish assault on key enclave
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s Kurdish militia is growing frustrated with its patron, the United States, and is pressing it to do more to stop Turkey’s assault on a key stronghold in S...
By Nicholas Heras
