Turkey Enraged Over US Deal to Allow ISIS Fighters Safe Passage From Raqqa

The BBC reported that the United States and its local allies worked out a deal with Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) in Raqqa, Syria, to allow them to depart the city with weapons in tow.

Juan Cole
بواسطة Juan Cole
A U.S. soldier stands near Syrian children on a road that links to Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, July 26, 2017.(AP/Hussein Malla)

On Tuesday, Turkey lambasted the US and its largely Kurdish allies in Syria, the YPG, for having made a deal that allowed 250 Daesh (ISIS) fighters and all their children and relatives to flee from Raqqa. Turkey’s prime minister Binali Yildirim said, The YPG terrorists let Daesh [terrorists] leave Raqqa with their weapons instead of eliminating

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Bombshell BBC Report Confirms US Struck a Deal with ISIS in Syria

The report comes amid a statement by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that the US is preparing for a long-term military commitment in Syria to fight ISIS.

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ISIS fighters from hold a celebratory parade after capturing Raqqa, Syria.

At a moment of widespread acknowledgment that the short-lived Islamic State (ISIS) is no longer a reality, and as ISIS is about to be defeated by the Syrian Army in its last urban holdout of Abu Kamal City in eastern Syria, the US is signaling an open-ended military presence in Syria. On Monday Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters at the

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US Allows Saudi Arabia To Plant Wahhabi Seed In Raqqa Rubble

With the U.S. intent on freezing the Syrian government out of the Raqqa rebuilding process, it has now looked to the Saudis for funding and planning. The Saudi point man for the project is a known anti-Shiite sectarian, espousing much of the belief system of the ousted Daesh terrorists.

Whitney Webb
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A traffic roundabout in the city of Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. U.S.-backed fighters were removing land mines and clearing roads in the northern city a day after commanders said they had driven ISIS from its de facto capital. (AP/Asmaa Waguih)

The fight to free the Syrian city of Raqqa from Daesh (ISIS) -- by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by U.S. special forces -- has all but ended. With Raqqa now under SDF control, the question has become how to rebuild the former Daesh stronghold. The reconstruction of Raqqa will undoubtedly last longer than the siege to

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Media Overlooks Civilian Casualties, Champions US Destruction Of Raqqa

The US war on the Syrian city of Raqqa has already killed over 1,800 civilians, but the media’s attention has been focused instead on the “pitilessly effective military power of the United States.”

Darius Shahtahmasebi
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Massacre of Raqqa

Opinion -- America’s illegal war in the Syrian city of Raqqa has already killed over 1,800 civilians, according to the monitoring group Airwars. At the time the offensive was launched in June, the U.S. was aware that some 200,000 civilians were trapped. In that first week of operations alone, the U.N. accused the Trump administration of killing 300

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ISIS Was Not Ended By Trump Or Obama – But By Muslims

Extremism was defeated by the Muslims. That should be the headlines. That is what Americans have trouble getting their heads around.

Juan Cole
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Iraqi soldiers guard a graduation ceremony of Sunni tribal volunteers joining Iraqi security forces in the town of Amiriyat al-Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP/Hadi Mizban)

Raqqa, the capital of the ISIL phony “caliphate” in eastern Syria, has completely fallen, according to a spokesman for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. It is just a matter of neutralizing a few remaining cells and defusing booby traps in the city. The SDF is primarily made up of leftist Kurds of the YPG or People’s Protection Units, the

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Monitors: US Airstrikes In Syria Have Killed 2,617 Civilians

A monitor group puts the total number of civilians killed in U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria at 2,617 since late 2014.

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Black smoke rises from a US airstrike on the eastern side of Raqqa, Syria, July 26, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla)

While the official Pentagon reports on civilian deaths claim far fewer deaths, NGOs have been consistently documenting a massive number of civilian bystanders killed in America’s air war in Iraq and Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the total at 2,617 civilians killed in US-led strikes just in Syria. This included 615 children

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