Source: Al Monitor By Jack Detsch A top Syrian Kurdish official visiting Washington today said US-backed fighters would consider integrating with Bashar al-Assad’s forces after the United States completes its pullout from the war-torn country. “The Syrian Democratic Forces can…
Source: CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Barbara Arvanitidis and Alex Platt, Venezuelan army defectors are calling on the Trump administration to arm them, in what they call their quest for “freedom.” Former soldiers Carlos Guillen Martinez and Josue Hidalgo Azuaje,…
Source: Hurriyet Daily News Turkey expects some four million Syrians to return to the safe zones that will be set up by Ankara in the war-torn country, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Jan. 28. “We are aiming in the first…
Source: AA By Mohamad Misto and Levent Tok More than 600 additional U.S. troops have arrived in Syria to provide protection to other American forces during their pullout from the war-torn country, according to local sources. The sources, who spoke…
Source: Al Monitor By Killian Cogan “If you don’t come back home now, you’ll never be able to see your homeland again.” Memet Atawulla received the threatening message last May on WeChat, China’s main messaging app. Though written in the…
Source: Al Masdar News The military police of the Russian Armed Forces began patrolling the territory in the Manbij area in the Syrian province of Aleppo near the Turkish border, the police’s spokesman Yusup Mamatov told reporters. After the United…
Source: Middle East Eye By David Hearst Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have hatched a plan with Israel to welcome Syrian President Bashar al-Assad back into the Arab League to marginalise the regional influence of Turkey and…
Source: Army Technology Germany has assumed the responsibility of Nato’s very high readiness joint task force (VJTF), which is a joint force consisting of a land component supported by air, maritime and special forces. The VJTF will be able to…
Source: Jerusalem Post Turkey will ask US officials in talks on Tuesday to hand over its military bases in Syria to Ankara or destroy them, the Hurriyet newspaper reported, a request that could further complicate discussions over the US withdrawal…
Source: UNIAN The Russian-led occupation forces continue massing heavy weapons in the area near the Russian occupied city of Luhansk in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, and conduct live-fire exercises, preparing for active hostilities. This is reported on Facebook by Ukrainian members…