Turkish President Erdoğan and his counterpart Putin have repeatedly met each other in recent years to coordinate their moves in Syria. In September 2018, they reached a de-escalation deal on Idlib in Sochi, Russia, aimed at turning Idlib into a de-escalation zone in which acts of aggression and offensive are expressly prohibited. With nowhere to...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 defense budget proposal allocates $300 million to fund the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s Syrian front, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), under the guise of fighting Daesh, signaling Washington’s ongoing support for terrorists in Syria despite Trump’s decision to pull out all U.S. troops from the war-torn country. The Pentagon...