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The US-Kurdish Problematique

... create uncertainties and further confusions on the ground. What is needed then is a re-evaluation of the US foreign policy in its practice. As far as the region is concerned, as, in reality, US relations with the rest of the Kurdish entities, and mainly the Kurds of Syria, that is the PYD (The Democratic Union Party, Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat), are still under early formation. At the same time, Russia continues to maintain absolute dominance in Syria as a long-term ally (at least since the 1950s Soviet-Syrian cooperation). Moscow ...

20.05.2020

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A Lone Wolf in Afrin

... counter-terrorist military operation, “Olive Branch”, is about to reach its objectives. Since its commencement on January 20, the Turkish border operation has been pursuing several objectives; primary among them is clearing the Afrin region of the PYD armed groups who pose a direct threat to Turkey’s national security due to their connection to the Turkey-based terrorist organization Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK, Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê). Despite its efforts to explain to the ...

21.03.2018

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