Category: Conflict

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 States decided to withdraw troops from Syria, Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) appealed to Damascus… Continue reading RUSSIAN TROOPS BEGIN PATROLS IN MANBIJ AREA (vid.)

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 Iran, Middle East Eye can exclusively reveal. The diplomatic initiative was agreed at a secret… Continue reading HOW GULF STATES HATCHED PLAN WITH ISRAEL TO REHABILITATE ASSAD

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 deploy at short notice when tasked, between two to seven days, to combat threats against… Continue reading GERMANY TO LEAD NATO’S VERY HIGH READINESSS JOINT TASK FORCE

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 from Syria. US National Security Adviser John Bolton was meeting with his Turkish counterpart Ibrahim… Continue reading TURKEY TO ASK U.S TO HAND OVER MILITARY BASES IN SYRIA

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 of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of the ceasefire and stabilization along… Continue reading RUSSIAN-LEAD FORCES NEAR LUHANSK MASSING WEAPONS

Source: EMPR The key dates and facts of Russian aggression in the Azov-Kerch theater of operation in 2018. April 27 – The border guard service of the FSB of Russia begins a series of selective stops and inspections of merchant ships in the Sea of Azov, going to and from Ukrainian ports. The daily freight… Continue reading HOW RUSSIA OCCUPIED SEA OF AZOV : FULL CHRONOLOGY

Source: UA Wire Yuriy Biryukov, advisor to the President of Ukraine said on the talk show “Situation” on Pryamyi TV that the Ukrainian Army has taken control of almost all of the gray zone, the territory which separates them from the pro-Russian militants, in the Donbas. “Considering what we had in May 2014, two thirds… Continue reading UKRAINIAN ARMY HAS TAKEN CONTROL OF NEARLY ALL GRAY ZONE IN DONBAS

Source: Foreign Policy By Steven A. Cook Last summer I wrote a piece for Foreign Policy called “Trump Is the First President to Get Turkey Right.” Some of my colleagues and friends thought I gone quite mad as the U.S. president brought his ferocious Twitter feed to bear on Turkish officials and Turkey’s economy. It… Continue reading TURKEY IS LYING ABOUT FIGHTING ISIS

Source: NY Times By Hwaida Saad and Rod Nordland America’s Kurdish allies in Syria are discussing the release of 3,200 Islamic State prisoners, a prominent monitoring group and a Western official of the anti-Islamic State coalition said on Thursday, a day after President Trump ordered the withdrawal of all American troops from the country. Top… Continue reading KURDISH FIGHTERS DISCUSS RELEASING ALMOST 3,200 ISIS PRISONERS

Source: Ha’aretz By Alexander Griffing As the war in Syria unfolded and President Bashar Assad pulled his troops out of the Kurdish northeast to quell uprisings in the country’s western population centers, Syria’s Kurds – with U.S. support – took it upon themselves to defeat the Islamic State on their territory. As the Kurds pushed… Continue reading TRUMP ABANDONS SYRIA’S KURDS: WILL TURKEY NOW CRUSH THEIR DREAM OF A “SDECULAR UTOPIA”?