Kurds

melanie.hunter | October 23, 2019
Turkey has informed the Trump administration that it will stop combat in Syria and will make the ceasefire brokered by the United States permanent,…
melanie.hunter | October 17, 2019
Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria, and Turkey will allow for the…
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Brittany M. Hughes | October 14, 2019
ABC issued a major “correction” to a video they aired on two of their biggest news shows purportedly showing Turkish attacks on Kurds after it turned…
Nick Kangadis | October 10, 2019
The media expects us to believe them. The media expects that we’ll believe what they tell us is the truth, without question, as if there’s no way…
patrick.goodenough | October 9, 2019
Asked Wednesday about a push by Sen. Lindsey Graham – normally a vocal ally – to sanction Turkey over its military offensive in Syria, President…
Monica Sanchez | January 14, 2019
President Trump on Sunday said that the U.S. is starting its "long overdue pullout" of U.S. troops from Syria and threatened to “devastate” Turkey’s…
Bryan Michalek | October 9, 2017
After a humiliating defeat at the hands of U.S.-backed Iraqi forces, more than a thousand ISIS militants surrendered in the Iraqi city of Hawija, …
patrick.goodenough | May 16, 2017
Speaking alongside President Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that engaging the Syrian Kurdish YPG group would “never be…
Tyler McNally | November 14, 2016
A Kurdish man has become the public face of the insurgency against ISIS due to his uncharacteristic methods. Ako Abdulrahman, a Peshmerga fighter,…
patrick.goodenough | January 27, 2016
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Wednesday Syrian rebel groups should not set “preconditions” to attending peace talks due to begin in…
danjoseph | August 11, 2015
He has no military training.  He suffered a heart attack in 2007. But, none of this stopped 53-year old Jim Atherton from selling some of his most…