Original article by Michael Rubin James Jeffrey, a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey, continues to seek to appease Turkish saber-rattling and appears ready to facilitate Turkish entrance into Kurdish-administered northeastern Syria. This would be a terrible idea for several reasons: The Kurdish zone in Syria is the most stable and secure region in the country. […]
Original article by Mircea Barbu De două luni și jumătate, Natalia Chiorean, mama lui Tasneem, fetiță de 11 ani și cetățean român, se roagă de Guvernul de la București să-i scoată copilul din nordul sângeros și fanatizat al Siriei. Mama spune că autoritățile noastre privesc impasibile la drama fetiței, în timp ce soarta copilului rămâne […]
Original article by Elizabeth Dent Over the past few weeks, my colleagues at MEI have debated whether the U.S. should stay in Syria or leave. Here I’d make a different argument: that it doesn’t really matter. The president has already made the decision to leave, and while his aides may have been able to slow […]
A new Rojava Information Center database has documented over thirty Turkish cross-border attacks targeting North East Syria since the beginning of 2019 alone, with rocket and heavy weapons fire wounding and killing at least 27 civilians. In contrast, these eight months saw only one attack into Turkey carried out from North East Syria by unknown […]
Original article by Wladimir van Wilgenburg ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Sleeper cell attacks in areas the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) control continue to hurt the stability of the region, analysts say. On Tuesday, a booby-trapped motorcycle bomb injured four civilians and one military officer in al-Shaddadi, the internal security forces said in a statement. […]
Original article by Alessandra Benignetti Il presidente americano, Donald Trump, dal summit di Biarritz ha ribadito l’appello ai leader europei per il rimpatrio dei jihadisti partiti dal Vecchio Continente che sono ancora prigionieri delle forze curde. “L’America non pagherà per i foreign fighter europei”. Donald Trump lo aveva annunciato la scorsa settimana davanti ai cronisti […]
Original article by Stephen Quillen With the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate off the map, European countries are struggling to deal with hundreds of foreign fighter recruits and their families who are seeking to return to their home countries. Since 2011, some 13,000 European nationals have joined the Islamic State (ISIS), posing unique legal and security […]
Original article by Alvaro Urbano Turquia prepara una ofensiva per acabar definitivament amb l’experiència d’un territori kurd autònom al nord sirià. El poble kurd, conscient de l’amenaça, es prepara per un embat que transcendeix Síria i afecta tots els moviments per l’emancipació a nivell mundial. 4 claus per entendre les amenaces d’Erdogan contra Rojava «El […]
Article by DPA staff Es sind die ersten vier Kinder von deutschen IS-Anhängern, die die Bundesregierung zurückholt. Es sollen nicht die einzigen bleiben. Über die Rückkehr von IS-Kindern nach Deutschland war schon länger spekuliert worden, nun war es so weit: Zum ersten Mal hat Deutschland Kinder von deutschen IS-Anhängern aus Syrien zurückgeholt. Drei Kinder seien […]
Original article by Ibrahim Naber and Alfred Hackensberger, Welt. Im Verborgenen hat die Bundesregierung eine erste Übergabe von Angehörigen von IS-Anhängern eingefädelt: Vier junge Waisenkinder kommen aus Syrien zurück in die Bundesrepublik. Sie werden als das geringste Sicherheitsrisiko angesehen. Am syrisch-irakischen Grenzübergang Semalka hat in den vergangenen Jahren für viele Menschen ein neues Leben begonnen. […]