By Michael Rubin Less than a week after a bomb exploded on an Istanbul pedestrian mall, Turkish warplanes struck across northern Syria in towns and cities governed by Syrian Kurds. While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his aides justify the attacks in counterterrorism, there […]
‘What happens in Syria does not stay there’ By Benjamin Weinthal | Fox News JERUSALEM, Israel – The Biden administration’s Syria policy has a laser-like focus on combating the largely defeated Islamic State terrorist movement, but some observers say it appears to be short-sighted when it […]
July 4, 2022 To maintain hard fought progress in Syria, preventing Turkish aggression against Syria’s Kurds is paramount. by Sinam Mohamad It’s a crisis waiting on the border and threatening to pounce. Hundreds of thousands of lives and seven years […]
May 27, 2022 2:41 PM Jeff Seldin This article originally appeared in Voice of America, May 27, 2022 WASHINGTON — U.S. allies in northeastern Syria are increasingly worried about Turkey’s pledge to launch a new round of military operations in […]
BY TOM O’CONNOR ON 6/1/22 AT 5:24 PM EDT This article originally appeared in Newsweek, June 3, 2022 Turkey appears to be leveraging its position as a deciding factor in the U.S.-led NATO military alliance’s attempts to counter Russia’s war in Ukraine by planning […]
Thousands of Syrian Christians have moved abroad during the 10-year civil war By Campbell MacDiarmid, MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT, TELL BALOUAAH, SYRIA5 December 2021 • 6:00am This article originally appeared in The Telegraph, December 5, 2021 There will be no Christmas […]
This piece originally appeared in The Telegraph, December 25, 2021 By Campbell MacDiarmid, MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT25 December 2021 • 6:00am Until recently, winter rains would transform the fields around Chagar Bazar in northeast Syria as emerald shoots of wheat and […]
This piece originally appeared in The Telegraph, December 19, 2021 By Campbell MacDiarmid, MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT, HASSAKEH, SYRIA 19 December 2021 • 7:30am Four years ago Anoud and Khala were widowed when their husbands were killed fighting against the Islamic […]
This piece originally appeared in Voice of America, May 13, 2022 WASHINGTON — Nearly three years after U.S.-backed forces in Syria seized the last remaining territory held by Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate, members of the global coalition charged with eradicating […]
BY TOM O’CONNOR ON 10/13/21 AT 5:00 AM EDT This piece originally appeared in NEWSWEEK Magazine, October 13, 2021. Ten years ago, it appeared to be the beginning of the end for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. His government’s brutal crackdowns on peaceful […]