A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump made the disastrous unilateral decision to pull U.S. troops back from Syria’s border with Turkey, paving the way for an aggressive Turkish military operation...
Syrian Kurds are angry and feel betrayed by the World Health Organization (WHO) amid the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. And they have good reason to be, after the WHO was revealed to have...
This March, as most of the world grappled with the alarming spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the conflict in Syria entered its tenth year. Although the conflict started almost a decade ago, the...
A United Nations (UN) panel has, for the first time, accused Russia of being responsible for war crimes for indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas, it was revealed on 2 March. The UN report from...
Two years ago, Turkey launched an unprovoked invasion of the northwestern Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin. Since then, primarily through its Syrian militia proxies, it has instigated a concerted...
Throughout the 2010s, the Syrian Arab Republic was ripped apart by a vicious civil conflict that killed at least half-a-million people, displaced and made refugees of millions more and led to the...
Turkey’s latest incursion into Syria is the latest part of a broader strategy Ankara has been implementing in northern Syria. This strategy is one of incrementally dividing and invading Syria’s...
Turkey’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees in the country’s northeast is not motivated by the admirable goal of facilitating a safe return of these refugees to their homes. Rather, Turkey aims to...
For the Yezidis August 3, the anniversary of the infamous genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State against their community, has yet again come and gone. It’s now been five years since the Islamic...
In light of Turkey’s renewed threats to invade Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), the present is an apt time to reevaluate the dire consequences that such an action would have for northeast Syria and the...