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After regrouping and receiving renewed support from NATO member Turkey, ISIS are once again on the move in Syria – threatening the stability of the region.
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(AP) The European border protection agency, Frontex, says it has deployed another 100 guards to Greece to help protect the EU’s frontier there from the pressure of migrants.
Warsaw-based Frontex said on Friday the deployment of guards from 22 member states is part of a rapid border intervention requested by Athens. The assistance will also include vessels, maritime surveillance aircraft and thermal-vision Vehicles, for the Frontex maritime Rapid Border Intervention task, Aegean 2020, AP reports.

Washington and Tel Aviv are still actively coordinating their efforts to destabilize Syria.
Tony Cartalucci
21st Century Wire
Turkey’s ongoing fighting in northern Syria’s Idlib governorate was – from the beginning of recent escalations – clearly a continuation of Washington’s wider now 9 year-long proxy war against Damascus.

Syria’s M5 Highway (Image Source: Arab Center DC)
Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire

Tony Cartalucci
21st Century Wire
Fighting in northern Syria has escalated as Syrian forces retake the last remaining bastions of foreign-funded militants and encircle, cut-off, and in some cases catch in the crossfire their Turkish backers.

IMAGE: TAI “Anka” unmanned aerial vehicles developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries (Image: Twitter)
While the US is well known for its prolific use of combat UAV drones aircraft, there is relatively little awareness about Turkey’s own expansive domestic drone program. 

Dr Can Erimtan
21st Century Wire
Syria’s not-so civil war is now finally nearing its end . . . but not if Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (or the Prez) can have his way. At present, he seems hell-bent on preserving the province of Idlid as a protected zone, protected by his words and Turkey’s army stationed across the area. But things might not be that easy after all.

Dr Can Erimtan
21st Century Wire

This week Turkey seems determined to push hostilities to the brink of all-out war with its provocations in Idlib, Syria. Will they successfully drag NATO into the crisis? This past week, part one of the US extradition hearing for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took place in London as his defense team battled US lawyers and a British judge to prevent their client being rendered to the US. Also, the US announce their mini-nukes arsenal, and BBC receive new award for their outstanding achievement in producing bias propaganda. All this and more. 

Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire
On Sunday evening, the Syrian army launched new military operations targeting militants-controlled areas in the countryside of Idlib governorate, focusing its progress towards the strategic Jabal Zawiya, which governs a wide geographical area from the “M4” highway linking Saraqib to Latakia City.