Boots On The Ground: US Sends Troops To Syria’s Manbij

After ExxonMobil publishes press release announcing new fossil fuel projects in Gulf of Mexico, White House lifts text practically word-for-word.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, center, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and Russia's Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov and their delegations attend a meeting in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, Turkey, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Turkey's military says the Turkish, U.S. and Russian chiefs of military staff are meeting in southern Turkey to discuss developments in Syria and Iraq. The meeting comes amid renewed Turkish threats to hit U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish targets in the northern Syrian city of Manbij. (Turkish Military, Pool Photo via AP)

After capturing the Syrian city of al-Bab from ISIS, Turkish officials made it clear that the next military target was the city of Manbij, along the Euphrates River. Manbij was captured last year from ISIS by the Kurdish YPG, with considerable US military support. Turkey had long insisted that Kurds aren’t allowed west of the river, where Manbij

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Turkish Forces Fight Alongside al-Qaeda Linked Rebels To Invade Syrian City

Turkish special forces and tanks rolled across the border and quickly secured Jarabulus for a group of al-Qaeda-linked rebels.

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A coalition of Turkey-backed rebels were given access to Turkish soil through which to launch an invasion of the ISIS border city of Jarabulus, but what happened was a lot bigger than anyone expected, as the rebels didn’t go alone, but were joined by a significant Turkish military contingent, which invaded along with

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US Warns Syrian Military… Against Operating Inside Syria!

The empire creates its own logic and it is not for we mere mortals to understand it.

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بواسطة Daniel Mcadams
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the commander of Combined Joint Task Force 10 and Regional Command East, speaks with Service members during a visit to Baraki Barak, Logar province, Afghanistan, Aug. 25, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Kap Kim/Released)

Just when you thought US foreign policy could not get more absurd. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, who is listed as "commander of US forces in Iraq and Syria," has issued a warning to the Syrian military that if its counter-insurgency operations on Syrian soil leave US troops on Syrian soil "feeling threatened," the US military would "defend

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Turkey Demands Unconditional US Support In Fighting Syrian Kurds

“The only thing we expect from our US ally is to support Turkey with no ifs or buts.”

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بواسطة Jason Ditz
Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, right, whispers into the ear of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Over the weekend, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu demanded that the US pledge “unconditional” military support for Turkey in the fight against the Kurdish YPG, a Syrian faction which has been the primary US ally in fighting ISIS. “The only thing we expect from our US ally is to support Turkey with no ifs or buts,” Davutoglu insisted,

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Meet Richard Jones, An American Citizen Fighting ISIS In Syria

An Atlanta native says an article on ISIS raping women and selling them into sex slavery inspired him to join the fight against the militant group in Syria. “I didn’t know if I would be successful here,” he tells MintPress, “but I knew I would hate myself for not trying.”

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Matthew Vickery
بواسطة Sheren Khalel
و Matthew Vickery
Richard Jones

RAS AL-AYN, Syria --- At a military complex in the Kurdish Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn, Richard Jones, an American citizen, stands guard with a Kalashnikov assault rifle at the ready. Jones has been in Syria for two months, volunteering to fight with the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants. He’s

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VIDEO: Kobani Residents Remain Defiant As Battle Rages In Their Hometown

As the battle for Kobani intensifies and the world takes notice, the people of Kobani can only wait. Many gather on a hilltop in a Turkish border town, their hometown’s fate out of their hands but still within sight.

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Sheren Khalel
بواسطة Matthew Vickery
و Sheren Khalel

SURUC, Turkey --- Ali watches smoke rise up out of his hometown in Kobani, Syria, from a hilltop on the Turkish border, a little over a mile away. Explosion after explosion pops off in succession, followed by the quick “tick-tick-tick” of AK-47 assault rifles. Ali, a Muslim man who asked to be referred to only by his first name, is anxious: He’s

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