French troops deploy to Manbij, join Trump’s stop-Turkey line in Syria
DEBKAfile Exclusive: French special ops troops have moved into two US Syrian bases, Manbij and Remelin, as the US boosts
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Kurds
Quarter million new Syrian refugees. Turks take Afrin city. Al Ghouta about to fall to Assad
The Turkish army and its surrogates took control on Sunday March 18 of the Kurdish Afrin City in northern Syria,
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Moscow brokers provisional Turkish-Syrian truce in Afrin
An armed clash between the Turkish and Syrian armies over the disputed Afrin enclave was narrowly averted this week by
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Erdogan holds back on threatened conquest of Afrin, goes for Manjib
The Turkish president has told Trump and Putin he would not seize N. Syrian Afrin from the Kurds after insignificant
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Kurdish militia repels Turkish Afrin invasion amid continuing Turkish air blitz
Russian forces did not interfere when 72 Turkish jets Saturday night pounded 100 Kurdish YPG targets in the north Syrian
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Turkish air strikes against Afrin Kurds. Assad opens roads to Kurdish reinforcements
Russian and American army chiefs conferred urgently Saturday, Jan. 20, about Turkey’s escalating assault on Kurdish Afrin in N. Syria.
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US halts arms supplies to Syrian Kurds at Turkey’s insistence
The White House said it was making “adjustments to its support for US partners” after the defeat of ISIS in
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Key Kurdish-held border crossing falls to Iranian control, cuts US army land supply line to Syria
The Iraqi army and Shiite Hashd Shaabi Brigades militias under Iranian Revolutionary Guards command seized the strategically important northern Iraqi-Syrian
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Kurdistan’s Barzani faces ouster. Iraqi army poised to seize KRG airfields
Iraq’s PM launches an operation to free Anbar from ISIS. DEBKAfile: It is Stage II of the Kurdish campaign for
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Kurds win Syrian oil under secret US-Russian deal – prize for Raqqa
US-backed Syrian Kurdish militias reported Sunday, Oct. 22, the capture of Syria’s biggest oil field of al-Omar in the eastern
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