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Syria News Links 19 October 2019
19 October 2019 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Dozens Of Russian Airstrikes Target Terrorists’ Positions In Lattakia, Idlib, Aleppo & Hama (Videos) Military Situation In Northern Syria On October 19, 2019 (Map Update) Continue reading
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Winners and Losers in the Turkish Attack on Syria. Russia is the Most Successful Player
18 October 2019 — Global Research Part III By Elijah J. Magnier The United States of America emerged victorious from the Second World War, and came out stronger than any other country in the world. The allies- notably the Soviet Union- won the war but emerged much weaker. They needed to reconstruct their countries and rebuild Continue reading
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MANBIJ LIBERATED BY SYRIAN ARMY; RUSSIAN PATIENCE PROVING LETHAL TO TURK AMBITIONS; KURDS GRUDGINGLY COOPERATE
It took two buffoons like Erdoghan and Trump to make Dr. Assad’s day a very pleasant one. First, the Turks invaded northeastern Syria ostensibly to block the formation of some tin-pot Kurdish enclave bedecked in the classic style of the bargaining chip the U.S. once needed to impose elections on the Syrian government. What the… Continue reading
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Syria News Links 18 October 2019
18 October 2019 • 16:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Erdogan Says He Has No Objection To Damascus’ Control Over Northeastern Syria Syrian Army Enters More Towns In Northeast Syria To Support SDF Continue reading
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Syria News Links 16-17 October 2019
17 October 2019 • 19:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Military Situation In Northern Syria On October 17, 2019 (Map Update) In Video: Army Deploys Rocket Launchers In Northeast Syria To Support SDF Turkey Accuses ‘Terrorists’ Of Continue reading
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How The Win-Win-Win-Win Plan For Syria’s Northeast Succeeds
Russian troops prevented attempts by Turkish supported Jihadis to attack Manbij. Russian and Syrian units now also entered Ayn al-Arab/Kobani. Syrian government troops took control of the electricity producing dam in Tabqah and some units set up posts in Raqqa. Other units entered the Conoco and Al-Umar oil fields north of Abu Kahmal and east… Continue reading
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Laith Marouf on recent events in Syria
In Damascus, I have an informal conversation with geopolitical analyst and media policy and law consultant, Laith Marouf, about recent events in Syria. Continue reading
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It’s curtains for US in Syria. Russia, Iran owe big thanks to Erdogan By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The scenario agreed on behind the curtains through months of confidential exchanges, often one-on-one, between the Russian and Turkish leaders regarding north-eastern Syria is entering a critical phase of implementation on the ground with the agreement between the Kurds and the Assad regime. Continue reading
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Kurds face stark options after US pullback
In the annals of bombastic Trump tweets, this one is simply astonishing: here we have a President of the United States, on the record, unmasking the whole $8-trillion intervention in the Middle East as an endless war based on a “false premise.” No wonder the Pentagon is not amused. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 15 October 2019
15 October 2019 • 20:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Die or ask the Syrian government to take them in: the Kurdish militias simply have no other options https://on.rt.com/a3ff Left in a hurry: RT films inside abandoned Continue reading
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Turkey’s Aggression against Syria: Selected Stories
15 October 2019 — Global Research Kurds Ally with Damascus Against Turkish Aggression By Stephen Lendman After Turkish forces launched cross-border aggression last week, things greatly escalated — Kurdish YPG fighters outgunned and outmatched against the onslaught. Their only option was seeking accommodation with Bashar al-Assad against a common Turkish foe, President Erdogan hell bent to annex northern Continue reading
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Washington’s Sum of All Fears: Kurdish Militants Cut a Deal with Damascus
Last night, Kurdish officials in northeastern Syria issued a statement that an agreement has been reached with the government in Damascus allowing the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to takeover key strategic positions along Syria’s northern border with Turkey. Continue reading
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Syrian Government Regains Control Over Country’s Northeastern Parts
Eight days ago U.S. President Donald Trump gave a green light for another Turkish invasion of Syria. We explained why that move made it inevitable for the Kurds to submit to Damascus and to let the Syrian Arab Army back into northeast Syria: Continue reading
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The Kurds in Syria By Philip Roddis
Adrift on an uncharted ocean we call Life, humans seem drawn to the illusion of certainty like wasps to an open jam jar. God is good! … I think so I am! … Brexit will be dandy/a disaster! … Bashar al-Assad is a Demon/a Saint! … Kurds Good, everyone else Baad! Continue reading
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A Turkish-Russian entente cordiale in the making By M.K. Bhadrakumar
Shall we sit upon the ground and tell there is no longer daylight between Russia and Turkey? We are almost there. The Turkish incursion into Syria on Wednesday is the tipping point. Turkey and Russia are closely coordinating. Consider the following. Continue reading
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Trump orders troop withdrawal in Syria. It could be for real By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The US president Donald Trump is not known to practise judo. A few judo techniques he may have got to know from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who is a Black Belt. But what Trump has just done to Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan is straight out of a Physics concept in judo. Continue reading
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Turkey faces quagmire in Syria By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The three-year old Russian-Turkish tango in Syria has been incisive, exciting and provocative, but the inability of the two partners to trust each other or surrender to the care and needs of the other has deprived the relationship of the energies to work symbiotically. Continue reading
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S-400 and Turkey: A Middle Eastern Perspective
By purchasing Russian artillery, the Turkish leadership has severed whatever remained of the strategic ties that have linked it to the United States for the last 70 years. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan chose not to be intimidated by the pressure and threats from Washington or to be lured by the variety of its temptations, and instead… Continue reading
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Shifting Alliances: Is Turkey Now “Officially” an Ally of Russia? Acquires Russia’s S-400. Exit from NATO Imminent? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Turkey is taking delivery of Russia’s S 400 missile defence system. What this signifies is that Turkey and Russia are now “officially” allies. The first shipment of the S-400 landed in Ankara on July 12, according to Turkey’s Ministry of Defense. (see image below) Continue reading
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Washington delivers ultimatum to Ankara on S-400 deal with Russia BY Padraig McGrath
On July 2nd, the State Department reiterated warnings that the United States will take retaliatory measures if Turkey does not reverse its decision to buy the Russian S-400 air defence system. Continue reading
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