BRIEF – Updated March 24, 2023 In a horrifying act of genocide by Turkish-backed militants, four members of the same Kurdish family were shot to death as they celebrated the Newroz Kurdish New Year holiday on Monday, March 20, 2023. The […]
On March 20, 2023, Ms. Sinam Sherkany Mohamad, Chief of Mission of the US Mission of the Syrian Democratic Council, was invited to the White House to celebrate the Newroz Kurdish New Year holiday. It was the first-ever Newroz event […]
This article originally appeared on The Defense Post, February 16, 2023. Turkey ramps up drone attacks, shelling, and air strikes in northern Syria as the region prepares for a ground invasion. Renewed Turkish drone attacks in northeastern Syria underwrite Turkey’s renewed […]
Shifts in the relationship between Ankara and Damascus are putting U.S. allies at risk. Cristina Maza Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s fraught relationship with Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad could be on the verge of thawing. But the budding rapprochement between […]
By Mazloum Abdi December 3, 2022 at 3:19 p.m. EST Mazloum Abdi is the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces. In 2014, the world learned about my hometown, Kobane, and my people, the Syrian Kurds, when we dealt the Islamic State its […]
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 […]