... Ankara decides to conduct a new full-scale military operation in Syria
A terrorist attack on November 13 in central Istanbul
... ... Avenue, about 200 meters from the diplomatic quarter, where the Russian Consulate General and Trade Mission, as well as the Russian ... ... interrogation that she had been sent by PKK/YPG leaders illegally to Turkey via Syrian Afrin.
Alexey Khlebnikov:
Changing Roles: Why ... ... but Ankara blamed the YPG for the explosion.
Neither Turkey’s NATO allies nor most EU countries, which included the PKK in their ...
Relations between the U.S. and Russia appear to be almost at the point of no return
... ... impact domestic politics and popular attitudes. Accusations of interference in the electoral systems raise ... ... include security concerns and disputes revolving around NATO and European Union enlargement, Russian actions ... ... further antagonizing relations.
First, NATO-member Turkey
shot down
a Russian aircraft in November 2015 ... ... April 2017, the U.S. fired 59 cruise missiles at Syrian airbase on grounds that the Syrian military ...
The story of how Russia won the (First) Russo-American Cyberwar because ... ... diplomatic efforts to win cooperation with the Russians on Syria, as all recent diplomatic talks with them on ... ... propaganda machine of hundreds of websites and many thousands of social media accounts—some unwittingly ... ... close decision; Russia has also been active in non-NATO Sweden this year, particularly when it was voting ... ... Austria. Furthermore, U.S. and NATO “ally” Turkey has taken a decidedly sharp anti-democratic ...
... of History,” the end of the Cold War marked the end of thousands of years of ideological struggle, and the spread of Western ... ... failed to effectively deal with conflict in Libya, Ukraine, and Syria, all within or near its periphery. The situation in Syria ... ... economic policies. In France, a rising far-right party funded by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government may possibly ... ... people further to the right. The assault on democratic norms in Turkey by its government is far worse. Still worse in that region,...
