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Amanda Sloat , Kemal Kirişci , Michael E. O’Hanlon , Ömer Taşpınar , Jeffrey Feltman , and Suzanne Maloney Source Link Amanda Sloat ( @A_Sloat ), Robert Bosch Senior Fellow in the Center on the Unit…
Source Link In the seven years since protesters in Syria first demonstrated against the four-decade rule of the Assad family, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed and some twelve million…
By Robin Wright Source Link At 3 a.m. on Monday, Middle East time, the commander of American special forces in Syria—whose name is not public for security reasons—held a video teleconference with Gen…
Source Link Turkish forces like these training on the western Syrian border near Idlib in January 2019 have massed for an offensive into northeastern Syria, where Kurdish militias have cooperated wit…
Source Link Two of America’s closest allies in the Middle East went to war on Wednesday—and Donald Trump didn’t seem to care. In what may have been the first declaration of hostilities on Twitter, t…
BY KATHY GILSINAN Source Link In times of policy confusion, there’s a stock phrase some Trump officials reach for, almost like a mantra: “We’ve been very clear.” Trying to explain why the president s…
