Making a very interesting, yet a serious, move, the US has announced operation “Euphrates Anger”, to be conducted by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDFDahJTkfw, a coalition of different US-backed militias, to re-take the city of Raqqa…
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Israel is Becoming Pivotal to China’s Mid-Eastern Calculus
While China is silently playing an important role in the mitigation of the conflict in the Middle East, which is an important market for the Chinese goods, continuously deteriorating security situation, marred by the presence…
Libya is a Complete Western Disaster, Finds a British Parliamentary Report
Three years ago, NATO declared that the mission in Libya had been “one of the most successful in NATO history.” Today, this statement is a proven lie that was fed to the public at large in the West. A recently published…
The re-taking of Mosul: What’s the long the and short of it?
To any neutral observer of the events happening in the Middle East, the battle for re-taking the city of Mosul by the Iraqi forces, aided by the US military “advisers”, from the Islamic State does appear to be the departing US…
On Putin-Erdogan Meeting in Syria—What is Happening
While a number of decisions worth leaving critical imprints on regional situation were taken, as was being expected, in a highly significant meeting between Russia’s Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan…
The US ‘Plan B’ Means Non-Cooperation with Russia
While the on-and-off episodes of co-operation have certainly left a very negative impact on the state of war in Syria—the latest episode leading to a lot of military and political escalation in and around the city of Aleppo…
Syrian Escalation: A US Way to Avert Defeat
While the US has suspended co-operation in bi-lateral channels with Russia over Syria and that it has explicitly threatened it with more “body bags”, the underlying and unstated objective of this frenzied behaviour and a sustained…
Erdogan is Using PKK as Cover to Corner the Kurds
While Turkey’s official narrative, with regard to the scope of operation Euphrates Shield’, is centred on eliminating the ‘militant’ PKK, ground realities hardly confirm it, and instead show that Erdogan’s current drive is mainly…
Operation ‘Euphrates Shield’ Turns Into Operation ‘Occupation’
Turkey’s operation ‘Euphrates Shield’ that had originally begun as the operation to drive the Kurdish militias back to the eastern side of Euphrates River is now turning into a mission to create a ‘safe zone’ inside Syria to…
America ‘Accidently’ Strikes Syria: Could it Have a Different Meaning?
While the US-led coalition’s airstrikes in the eastern parts of Syria have been told to have taken place due purely to an “accident”, the incident stands out as yet another unmistakable evidence of America’s dual strategy…
Syrian Deal: Сollective Wisdom Versus Hawkish Raiders
While this is not for the first time that a ceasefire agreement has been achieved in Syria, the recent US-Russia deal has happened at a time when, on the one hand, the US president is trying his best to carve out an edge in Syria…
Syria: Turkey pushing Washington up the wall?
Turkish intervention in Syria, although primarily motivated by its security concerns vis-à-vis Kurds, has started to create consequences that are not simply confined to reversing the Kurdish advances. On the one hand, Turkey is…