by Tyler | Oct 14, 2019 | Iraq, Islamic State, Israel / Middle East, Kurds, National Security, Syria, Trending, Turkey
Turkey is a legitimate nation-state with long-standing memberships in major international organizations like the U.N. and NATO. The Kurds are stateless actors, a large ethnic group broken into many factions and spread across several different countries. This is a very...
by Tyler | Oct 14, 2019 | Chris Wallace, Clips, Donald Trump, Israel / Middle East, Mark Esper, Media, Syria, Trending
On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper was asked by anchor Chris Wallace if President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. forces from Northern Syria was the equivalent of abandoning the U.S. allies, the...
by Tyler | Oct 11, 2019 | Dreamers, Illegal Aliens, Kurds, National Security, Politics, Syria, Trending
Why is it always foreigners who manage to unite all the politicians from both parties in Washington? Illegal aliens — I mean “Dreamers.” Haitian boat people. Olde Europeans. Sudanese. And now the Kurds. It is never support for regular Americans that brings politicians...
by Tyler | Oct 11, 2019 | Bashar al-Assad, Israel / Middle East, Kurdistan, Kurds, National Security, Reccip Erdogan, Russia, Sergei Lavrov, Syria, Trending, Turkey
Russia will urge Kurdish authorities in northern Syria to open talks with Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Damascus, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday amid an ongoing Turkish invasion of Kurdish-controlled areas.
by Tyler | Oct 9, 2019 | 2020 Election, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, foreign policy, globalism, Kurds, National Security, neoconservatism, Politics, Syria, Trending, Twitter
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attacked President Donald Trump’s proposal to withdraw remaining U.S. troops from Syria, tweeting Tuesday that a pullout could have “catastrophic consequences.”
by Tyler | Oct 8, 2019 | Asia, Donald Trump, National Security, Politics, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Syria, Trending, White House
“This does not constitute a withdrawal from Syria. We’re talking about a small number of troops that will move to other bases within Syria,” the official noted,