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Turkey’s Afrin Operation Stokes Syrian Yazidi Fears and Fuels Displacement —...
Following the Yazidi Genocide that began Aug. 3, 2014 in Sinjar, most awareness of the Yazidis has centered on Iraq’s Yazidi community. Syria also has many Yazidi villages located in Kurdish areas....
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Idlib: The Game Above the Game – by David W. Lesch
David Lesch The Game Above the Game by David W. Lesch For Syria Comment – Sept 21, 2018 The various combatants in and around Idlib seem to have hit the pause button for the time being. What just a...
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The rise and fall of a CIA-backed rebel commander in Syria – by @ErikaSolomon
This is a wonderful and important article by Erika Solomon. @ErikaSolomon for the Financial Times. I have cut out sections, marked with a “….” The rise and fall of a CIA-backed rebel commander in...
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Yes, Syrian Kurds Have Committed War Crimes – Roy Gutman Responds to Aymenn...
Roy Gutman Responds to Aymenn al-Tamimi on “Have the Syrian Kurds Committed War Crimes?” By Roy Gutman – @Roy_Gutman For Syria Comment – February 12, 2017 Any journalist covering a controversial topic...
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Why the U.S. Should Team Up with the Kurds & Not Turkey to Take Raqqa and...
Why the U.S. Should Team Up with the Kurds & Not Turkey to Take Raqqa and Destroy the Islamic State By Joshua Landis For Syria Comment – March 18, 2017 The problem with letting the Turks take Raqqa...
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Will the U.S. Abandon the Kurds of Syria Once ISIS is Destroyed? by Landis,...
Will the U.S. Abandon the Kurds of Syria Once ISIS is Destroyed? by Joshua Landis, Faysal Itani, Steven Simon For Syria Comment, 1 October 2017 Faysal Itani, a Senior Fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center...
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Trump’s Iran Policy is More about Rollback Than Nukes; It Will Cause More...
Trump’s Iran Policy is More about Rollback Than Nukes; It Will Cause More Failed States by Joshua Landis Syria Comment – Oct 14, 2017 The renewed US offensive against Iran is not so much about its...
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US Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds and Turkey – By Joshua Landis
US Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds and Turkey By Joshua Landis January 15, 2018 The State Department has turned the page on Turkey for it no longer views Ankara as a reliable US partner. Many argue...
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A Sustainable United States Policy for North Syria, the Kurds, Turkey and the...
A Sustainable U.S. Policy for North Syria, the Kurds, Turkey and the Syrian Government By Joshua Landis and Matthew Barber Syria Comment – January 24, 2018 This article is a “part-two” to the previous...
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Syria, Deterrence of Chemical Weapons and U.S. Policy in the Middle East – By...
Syria, Deterrence of Chemical Weapons and U.S. Policy in the Middle East By Joshua Landis For Syria Comment – April 12, 2018 President Trump has been provoked into action by the terrible videos coming...
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