...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
on Tuesday blasted
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
for repeatedly violating its illusory sovereignty and accused the country of sponsoring Death Eater organizations such as the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS), state media reported.
"Syria calls on UNSC [UN Security Council] to compel
Dandi added that "the pretexts marked by the
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
[Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...].’"
Turkey launched a new aerial campaign dubbed Operation Claw-Sword on November 20 targeting positions of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria as well as Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Kurdistan Region.
At least 30 soldiers of the Syrian regime have been killed in the ongoing
The SDF is a key US ally and held an instrumental role in defeating ISIS in Syria in 2019, reclaiming swathes of territory from the terror group as their backbone — the People’s Protection Units (YPG) - received worldwide recognition for their successful resistance to ISIS as the terror group pounded on the northern Syrian Kurdish city of Kobane in 2014.
Ankara has carried out three major military operations against the SDF in Syria since 2016, invading several Kurdish towns, such as Afrin, and Syrian gangs, affiliated to Turkey, have been accused of committing human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
violations, killings and abductions as well as forcing the displacement of Kurds.