by Jim Heath | Oct 16, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mocked Donald Trump today – saying he can no longer ‘keep track’ of his counterpart’s tweets on Syria. ‘When we take a look at Mr Trump’s Twitter posts, we can no longer follow them,’...
by Jim Heath | Oct 16, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
President Trump faced a Republican rebellion today over his sudden withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria – as a lopsided House majority condemned the move and ally Sen. Lindsey Graham vowed to become Trump’s ‘worst nightmare’ to protect the Kurds....
by Jim Heath | Oct 10, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Donald Trump and his campaign gutted the GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine from the party platform in 2016, and now it appears a similar revision will have to made on backing the Kurds in 2020. The Republican Party platform, adopted the week Donald Trump...
by Jim Heath | Oct 10, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Shells and rockets landed in several Turkish border towns today, killing four civilians, one of them an infant, and wounding 70, in a sharp escalation of the conflict between Turkey and the Kurdish-led militia that fought alongside American forces in the campaign...
by Jim Heath | Oct 9, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
President Trump offered no verbal support this afternoon for Kurdish allies he is accused of abandoning, as Turkey begins to invade Syria. Instead, Trump said they have “wanted to fight, and that’s the way it is.” Trump also said ISIS fighters in the...
by Jim Heath | Oct 7, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
U.S. Kurdish allies say President Trump’s decision to pull troops from the Syrian-Turkish border is “shocking” and deflating — and they warn that the U.S. is duplicating a mistake it made in Iraq, where it has ceded partial control to Iran. Within...
