... President Donald Trump is applying pressure to accelerate negotiations between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian government. Brad Cooper, the head of US Central Command, just
visited
Syria on October 6 in response to confrontations between SDF and Syrian government forces in Aleppo, demonstrating this pressure. Cooper's meeting with President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi resulted in a plan to carry out the March 10 agreement. Building on the changes brought about by the ceasefire deal in Gaza,...
... follow this course, it’s going to play an all-or-nothing game.
We cannot rule out the possibility of this scenario having the most pernicious effect on the Euro-Atlantic solidarity. Moscow still has certain leverage to manage this situation, since Syria’s SDF-controlled northeast is essentially split into two areas of responsibility, the Russian-Syrian one in the west and American in the east. Americans still apparently hold the advantage in both areas as they control the air space over both. Washington ...
... Turkish civil society organizations calling for the arrest of McGurk for what they called his collusion with "terrorist groups."
The reason for the investigation and the memorandum is the confessions of Talal Silo, former spokesman for the "Syrian Democratic Forces" (SDF), which is considered the backbone of the Syrian arm of PKK. General Raymond Thomas, commander of special operations in the U.S. Army in 2017, revealed during a dialogue session on the sidelines of the Aspen Security Conference in Colorado that the ...
