Scattered across Rojava - the Kurdish-led region in Syria that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are prisons holding thousands upon thousands of captured ISIS fighters ...
Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the ...
Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...
On a recent episode of his War Room podcast ... of China and the decline of American military and economic hegemony, many conservatives believe the post-Cold War “unipolar moment” is coming ...
This once top-secret US military base, built at the height of the Cold War, contained an even more covert mission – storing nuclear missiles in Arctic tunnels. What remains now is an abandoned ...
Changes in Turkey, the United States, and global politics since the end of the Cold ... Turkish security; American relations with Syrian Kurdish groups fighting the Islamic State; promises of ...
Assad responded with a brutal crackdown that spiraled into civil war that killed ... which sees Turkish support for Syrian groups as a security threat and has bombed its military and intelligence ...
Meanwhile, the Turkish military has maintained pressure on Kurdish fighters in both Syria and northern Iraq. On Sunday, the Defense Ministry said Turkish troops killed 23 “PKK/YPG terrorists ...
Syria then was in the throes of full-blown civil war ... of Russia’s military footprint remains unclear. The government in Damascus is also negotiating the status of U.S. and Turkish military ...