4-10 November 2019
16 November 2019
Syria, Turkey, The Kurds, ISIS & The New Global War on Terror by Phillis Bennis. The University of Toledo 19th Annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture at McQuade Law Auditorium
15 November 2019
It's been 75 years since the forced deportation of up to 120,000 Turks from their homes in the former Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin packed them onto trains to central Asia, because he viewed them, as well as other minorities, as a security threat to the USSR. The Ahiska Turks were the last of the deported minorities to return.
14 November 2019
The Syrian army began deploying troops on Monday to confront Turkish forces. Kurdish forces say the Russia-backed Syrian troops are an "emergency measure" after the U.S. announced a withdrawal from the region.
12 November 2019
President Erdogan has threatened to release Islamic State members and send them back to Europe in response to EU sanctions over Cyprus. Meanwhile a top Kurdish general - the leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces - has claimed that Turkey is actively encouraging the return of IS and that a major terror attack should now be expected in the West.
12 November 2019
A man has been arrested at Heathrow airport after Turkey said it had deported a British Islamic State suspect. Scotland Yard said the 26-year-old was held "on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts under section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006", adding that it was "Syria-related".
12 November 2019
A battle rages for key Syrian border town Ras al Ain as Turkey presses its military assault against Kurdish fighters in the region. The capture of the town would be Turkey's most significant gain since its invasion began on Wednesday.
11 November 2019
Syrian White Helmets founder dead in Istanbul. James Le Mesurier, founder of the Mayday Rescue group, was found dead early on Monday near his home in central Istanbul, Turkey.
11 November 2019
Turkey has started sending Islamic State fighters captured in Syria back to their homelands. The 'IS' fighters have been held at deportation centers in Turkey and, according to the Turkish interior ministry, the first to be repatriated is a US citizen. A German combatant will also be sent back today. Turkey's move to repatriate fighters of the so-called Islamic State comes as more evidence is being uncovered of the jihadi group's crimes in Syria.
11 November 2019
Turkish forces have begun building and restoring the Syrian town of Ras al Ayn after it is cleared from the YPG terror group with its Operation Peace Spring that began last month.
11 November 2019
The US House of Representatives recently weaponized the Armenian genocide, calling the mutual massacres of 1915 "genocide", in an effort to retaliate against the Peace Spring Operation.
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