By Dr. Jonathan Spyer Expert on Syria, Iraq, radical Islamic groups, and Kurds In the southwest, the outside powers of relevance are Iran and Russia. The arrangement in place from July…
By Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, Expert on modern Turkey and Dr. Jonathan Spyer, Expert on Syria, Iraq, radical Islamic groups, and Kurds Erdoğan has created a private military and…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that the United States military pullback from the Syrian border city of Kobani should take “another week or so” to complete, as the…
"Israel indeed has a salient interest in preserving the strength of the Kurds and the additional minorities in the north Syria area.” This, according to Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi…
Russian and Turkish forces are facing repeated incidents of resistance along their 72-kilometer (just under 45 miles) patrol routes of a corridor in northern Syria. A video released by Syria’s…
Turkish and Russian troops began their second joint ground patrol in armored vehicles near the northern Syrian town of Kobani, under a deal that has forced the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic…
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that despite Russian conformation of a complete Kurdish withdrawal from the so-called safe zone along northern Syria, continued attacks against Turkish forces indicate that the…
Moscow announced that Kurdish forces had withdrawn from a safe-zone near the north-eastern Syrian border with Turkey, ahead of the agreed-upon schedule. During a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in…
Clashes erupted in several villages in Syria’s Turkish-envisioned northeastern “safe zone.” Five Turkish soldiers and numerous militants of the Ankara-backed Syrian paramilitary forces were reportedly wounded in heavy exchanges of…
The Turkish military operation, dubbed by Ankara “Peace Spring” will not expand beyond the so-called “safe zone,” effectively bringing the wide-scale hostilities in northeast Syria to an end. Turkish Defense…