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Pentagon disgruntled: Syrian government and Russia ‘exploit’ Arab discontentment in North-East Syria
As you have read in my last article Damascus repaving the ground for its return to North-East Syria, the legitimate Syrian government is regaining popularity amongst the population of North-East Syria. Big ideological differences between the PKK-affiliated PYD and the local Arab majority are taking its toll on the long run. Discontment among the […]
Turkey: PYD/ENKS peace talks is a conspiracy to create international representing space for the PKK in North-East Syria
Turkey is openly disgruntled over the US-backed effort to unite disparate Syrian Kurdish rival political factions that kicked off last month. Turkish disgruntlement was palpable in a May 11 dispatch in Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency. It characterized the effort to unite disparate Syrian Kurdish factions as more of a conspiracy aimed at creating “international […]
Russia and America play cat and mouse in North-East Syria
Yesterday, we could see how the brave people of Qamishlo helped the legitimate government’s National Defense Force to prevent a US patrol from entering Qamishlo. Today, the US forces tried to enter the PYD/PKK-controlled city once again. This time, Russian patrols blocked the road between Hasakah and Qamishlo so that the US patrol could not […]
People of Deir ez-Zor transferred their complaints to SDF official
A meeting took place on Sunday 12-4-2020, in the municipality building in the town of Al-Sousa in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which included an official from the self-administration (a senior PKK member called Zinar, a man from Qamishlo that has been in the mountains for years) and the heads of the councils of […]
US nurses threatened by authorities
A COVID-19 unit nurse says she resigned Monday after being told she couldn’t wear an N95 mask. She warns, “nurses are not being protected.” Stories about medical staff without proper protection are getting more and more common in the US, as the COVID-19 virus spreads through the country. The Trump-administration, has spent the last two […]
US warns YPG on Idlib
The United States have warned the People’s Defense Units (YPG) – the PKK’s armed wing in Syrian Kurdistan – that it will not protect it against Turkish attacks if YPG intervenes in the Idlib war. Murad Yetkin, a journalist from Turkey’s Hurrayat journal, writes about the Syrian Army’s war Idlib saying as the US asked […]