Bottom Line Up FrontThe United States is looking to consolidate and expand its presence in the eastern provinces of Deir al-Zour and al-Hasakah, yet [...]
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OPINION — Donald Trump as president displays weakness toward those he envies as strong foreign leaders, while he acts like a bully toward leaders he [...]
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OPINION – Why is there no Whistleblower in the case of President Trump’s October 6, phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan? Who was [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontOn October 9, Turkey launched a cross-border offensive into northern Syria using airstrikes, artillery bombardments, and a ground [...]
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is defending President Trump’s decision to withdraw support for Kurdish troops in Northeast Syria, saying Turkey [...]
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The White House announced Sunday that President Trump will endorse a Turkish military operation near the border with Syria that will target Kurdish [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontOn December 19, 2018, President Trump unexpectedly announced a full withdrawal of all U.S. troops in Syria within the next 30 [...]
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Bottom Line: The U.S. teamed with Kurdish forces to oust ISIS from its self-declared caliphate in Syria in Iraq, but now Washington’s continued [...]
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Turkey has had considerable military success in its two-month old campaign against the Syrian Kurdish militia in the northwest Syrian border province [...]
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The Sept. 25 Kurdish referendum has risked permanent damage to the relationship between the Kurdish Regional Government and the Iraqi government [...]
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The Kurdistan Regional Government is already suffering international blowback from its independence referendum, and now some Kurds are calling for [...]
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Iraq’s top diplomat in Washington, D.C., cried foul Friday over Kurdish government charges that Iran backed Iraq’s campaign to retake Kirkuk.“The KRG [...]
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi published an op-ed in the New York Times on Wednesday, denouncing the “illegal” referendum held by the Kurdistan [...]
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This September, voters in the territories controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly to declare [...]
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The surprise advance of Iraqi troops into the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk on Monday raises a spectre that has haunted Iraq since the 2003 U.S. [...]
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