While the world focuses on war and humanitarian suffering resulting from Turkey’s military operations in northern Syria starting in October, the defense industries and national governments of the United States has been focused on trying to come to an agreement...
With their back to the wall and having been abandoned by the Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal decision, Syrian Kurds and their main military arm, the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) have been left stranded between some bitter choices. A growing sense...
On Tuesday, November 5, Turkey’s Erdogan said the Kurdish militia YPG (People’s Protection Units) had not yet withdrawn from some areas within the Safe Zone that Turkey aims at establishing in northeastern Syria. The Turkish president also stated that US...
Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has doubled down on his criticism of Defence Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer and said she was “damaging” German foreign policy. Maas first criticised the Defence Minister’s call for a security zone in Syria. What is further proof...
In the span of a few months, Iraq has gone from an optimistic state that had won its war against ISIS to a protest-filled nation confronting the possibility of the terror group’s return. “Iraq has not learned the lesson from...
Life may never completely return to normal for Syrian refugees displaced by a decade-long civil war, but their plight could at least be treated with dignity and basic respect for humanity. Instead, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has seen fit...
Despite the landmark deal reached by Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin in Sochi last week, guns have yet to go silent between the Turkish army and SDF Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria. Over the past couple of days...
Yesterday witnessed two important developments occur with regards to the conflict in Syria that sent strong indications in finding an end to the nine-year war that has ravaged the country. The first was the landmark agreement made during the Sochi...
The escalation of the dispute related to the strait of Hormuz shows how vulnerable many of today’s oil routes are. What oil shipping routes and bottlenecks could become hotspots in the future? The dispute of oil shipments through the Strait...
The coalition called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) brings together militias of the Kurdish YPG and groups comprised of local Arab tribes. Currently, it controls territory covering the northeastern part of Syria, between the provinces of Al Hasakah and Deir...