Kurdistan

Hole-in-One by Nancy OhanianThere are between 30 and 40 million Kurds in the world but their homeland stretches across northwest Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and southeast Turkey. They are the world's largest ethnic group without a state.

Having served their purpose, the Kurds are being fucked-over by the U.S. once again. Lindsey Graham knows how to reach Trump when he doesn't pick up his phone-- you just call in to Fox & Friends instead (above).

-by Reese ErlichISTANBUL —The Turkish government plans to use Syrian refugees to displace the local Kurdish population in northern Syria.

U.S military footprint in north-east Syria. (Photo: Twitter)
Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture

The US will withdraw her troops from Syria. Will they really?  Let’s take Trump at his word, just for argument’s sake. Though in the meantime, RT reports that the withdrawal may be slower than anticipated, to allow Erdogan making his own “strategic arrangements”, while US troops depart. During his flash visit to the US troops in Iraq on Christmas Day, Mr. Trump already indicated that any US intervention – if necessary – would be launched from Iraq. Of course.

In a recent article by Patrick Cockburn, a well-respected journalist for The Independent, he wrote about the Iraqi military’s effort to keep control of their borders and resist efforts for “Kurdish independence.” As Cockburn notes, when Iraqi military forces retook control of t

AFRIN, SYRIA (Analysis) —  In less than two months since Erdoğan’s Operation Olive Branch kicked off, the Kurdish “Rojava Project,” which aims for a unified Kurdish-controlled area in northeast Syria, has been delivered a strong blow. Kurdish militias have shown their inability to unite in the face of Turkish aggression.

Liberation of Eastern Ghouta from Islamist extremist occupation, by Syrian Arab Army and allies. (Photo: Twitter)
Vanessa Beeley and Camille Otrakji
21st Century Wire

Source : Ted Snider, Consortium News, 05-02- 2018
Les Kurdes se retrouvent pris au milieu d’une lutte de pouvoir entre les États-Unis, la Russie, la Turquie, l’Iran et la Syrie – une situation familière qui fait suite à des décennies de conflits géopolitiques dans leur région, explique Ted Snider.

We are reaching the seventh-year anniversary of the tragic conflict in Syria, which seems to evolve and get more complex as time goes on. If nothing else, with the recent downing of an Israeli F16 by the Syrian army of Bashar al-Assad, which was the first time an Israeli jet was shot down for breaching Syrian air space, the conflict could even grow, with sustained intrusions from Israeli military forces in Syria and tit-for-tat retaliations against Israel by Hezbollah opening a front between Israel and Lebanon.