Turkey

As multiple actors compete for land and leverage in northeastern Syria, the risk of country-on-country war looms ever closer.

As the Syran Arab Army continue to move into key positions along its northern border region, the state has been able to reclaim some of its natural resources, including its Rumilan oil fields located in Hasakah province in the country’s northeast.
Syria News reports…

Lashing with a Wet Noodle

Referring facetiously to a whipping mechanism that is impractical and has no injurious effects

 Lafarge's Wrist Slap:Lafarge charges of crime against humanity dropped on appeal but others remain

Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire
The Russian METIS anti-tank system destroyed the latest Turkish military gun, the T-155 self-propelled cannon. Russian media sources published pictures of the cannon after it was completely destroyed and uprooted.

 Because the US LIES.  Implied but not stated by Lavrov.  So, I'll state it.*Turkey, Russia vital for political solution in Syrian war, former UN envoy de Mistura says

 Tom Anderson. Who is Tom Anderson? He apparently has 43 articles at the Canary?He's pro Greater Kurdistan. That's very clear. While posing as "Anti- Israel". That's a contradiction. Since Greater Kurdistan is the best thing that could happen to Israel in the middle east. It's a development Israel is 100 percent behind.

Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire

 Normally I pass right by Zero Hedge. No reading. No linking to. But after reading multiple news articles about this "incident" it seemed sensible to sort reality from spin making it sad but necessary to provide the link to ZeroHedge.  Where the presentation included the  wording Russian MoD. Click bait for the headline skimmers? Appeal to Authority?  Appears so! I had different ideas about what had occurred, after reading multiple news items.  My conclusion.

There’s no denying that recent years have witnessed bilateral relations between Turkey and the United States taking a massive plunge. These days, those are characterized by a long list of contradictions that render Ankara incompatible with the status of a NATO-ally.

Crossing the Euphrates, Darah Qawzak bridge. Every inch of Syria returning to Syria. This area that we drove through had, at one time, been under control of ISIS.