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US Dept of StateAnnoyingly Jeffrey calls Syrian territory YPG territory repeatedly.

After leaving Turkey, Pompeo landed last night in Israel to meet and reassure Netanyahu. Yes, it is the continuing on with the nearly non stop coverage of Syria, Operation Peace Spring and regional happenings. Recent related:

  What a humiliation for the US. Israel and their terrorists proxies. Taken down quite a few notches. By Turkey for the most part. Not Turkey entirely, but, their entry in to Syria was the decisive factor in the decision  for the US to 'get out of Dodge' Imagine the grin on the faces of the Turkish, Russian and Syrian soldiers as they watch these so called "Syrian/ Democratic/ Egalitarian/ Freedom Fighters/ Great Fighters of ISIS (NOT) get kicked to the curb? This also informs me, as I'd suspected, there was NO DEAL between SDF/YPG/PKK and Damascus.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris examine how the Russian and US military appear to be coordinating their moves in Syria so as to prevent Turkey from moving further into Northern Syria, while using diplomacy to bring the Kurds into the framework of a united Syria.
According to AMN (), Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Mark Milley and Russian Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov held a phone conversation on Monday to discuss the situation in Syria, the JCS press service said.

Following up on yesterday's report that ended with a link to nomadiceveryman  and one final commentary:

The foreign policy elite is in an uproar. They claim we have abandoned our allies, they question how can America be trusted, they say the decision to withdraw from northern Syria was a gift to Russia, Iran, and Assad, to ISIS even. It is true that the U.S. and NATO policy of interventionism is failing, but that has been true since the invasion of Iraq or earlier. After the disastrous invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and an 8-year undeclared war on Syria, isn’t it time to question the foreign policy elite?  

Normally, 21WIRE would not disseminate news releases coming from ‘Amaq’ which is said to be ISIS’s in-house news agency, but we’re sharing this report via South Front to illustrate an important point that maybe the US-backed Kurdish-led ‘SDF Forces’ were always unsustainable, in that, without an indefinite US occupying force propping them up, they are unable to fulfill their primary obligations of their mission, namely to secure ISIS prisoners held in detention.

Former and current US officials have slammed the Turkish mercenary force of “Arab militias” for executing and beheading Kurds in…
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 Update @ 4:02 pm October 16/19Hafez el-Assad signed this accordHubby was looking on Wikipedia to see if the Adana Accord/Agreement was mentioned. It doesn't exist on the North American version of Wiki. HOWEVER the Adana Accord is available in French. Francais  (France) Accord d'Adana

As the day of destiny approaches, both wings of the British establishment are scrambling to ensure the country leaves or remains in the EU, while the mainstream media ramp-up ‘operation fear’ in the meantime.