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US fighter jets and gunship helicopters were sent to scare off Turkish-backed militants in northern Syria after they came “very close” to US troops at Ain Issa, the Pentagon said. Washington has also sent a complaint to Ankara. F-15 fighters and AH-64 Apache gunships were used in the “show of force” on Tuesday, an unnamed US official told reporters, after the militants “violated a standing agreement” not to threaten US troops. A formal complaint was lodged with the Turkish military through diplomatic channels, the official added. Though US troops have been withdrawing from Syria for the past week, some Special Forces operators were apparently…

US Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Ankara to meet Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week to discuss the country’s ongoing military operation in Syria, the White House said in a statement on Tuesday. According to the White House, during the meeting with Turkish President, Pence will try to urge Turkey to reach an immediate ceasefire in Syria and to work towards a negotiated settlement. “On October 17, Vice President Pence will participate in a bilateral meeting with President Erdoğan,” the White House said. “During the meeting, Vice President Pence will reiterate President Trump’s commitment to maintain punishing…

By: Lilly Martin The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) who are the ONLY National Army in Syria, and their allies, the Russian Security Forces, have today moved through the formerly “Kurdish” held land, to arrive at the Turkish border. Moscow stated they believe that this move will cause Turkey to stop its attacks into Syria. This was made possible by an alliance between Damascus and the Kurds, who are all Syrian citizens. Several years ago, the Kurds set up headquarters in Qamishli and set up their own “State”. They considered their “State”, which was the NE corner of Syria, to be…

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid headed to Syria to help displaced families who have been forced to flee the violence caused by the Turkish military offensive, said the representative of the Kurdish Barazan Charity Society, Badr Eddin Najim Eddin. Around 30 trucks, loaded with food and other humanitarian items, were sent by Iraq’s Kurdish Barazan Charity Society. Turkey launched a cross-border operation against Kurdish-led groups in northern Syria last Wednesday. (Source: Reuters)

Syrian army troops have established full control over Manbij, a city in the northern province of Aleppo, and its nearby settlements, amid Turkey’s cross-border invasion in northeastern Syria and an abrupt US retreat of its forces from the city. Syria’s official news agency SANA reported on Tuesday that Syrian Arab Army units completed their deployment in Manbij and its surroundings, where they were welcomed by the locals. It added that residents of the northeastern city gathered in the city center, carrying Syrian flags and cheering for the army forces, which arrived to defend the city and its people from the…

By Drago Bosnic A senior Iraqi security expert disclosed that Washington is attempting to transfer 3,000 members of the ISIS terrorist group from Syria to Iraq. Hafez Al-Basharah told the Arabic-language al-Ma’aloumeh news website on Tuesday that the US which has created and supported the ISIS terrorists in the past few years is now plotting to create a safe area for them in Iraq. He added that Washington, which has chosen three areas in Iraq for the ISIS relocation, wants to transfer the militants first to the regions under Turkey’s military attacks in Syria and then to Iraq. “The first region that the…

By Pepe Escobar In the annals of bombastic Trump tweets, this one is simply astonishing: here we have a President of the United States, on the record, unmasking the whole $8-trillion intervention in the Middle East as an endless war based on a “false premise.” No wonder the Pentagon is not amused. Trump’s tweet bisects the surreal geopolitical spectacle of Turkey attacking a 120-kilometer-long stretch of Syrian territory east of the Euphrates to essentially expel Syrian Kurds. Even after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cleared with Trump the terms of the Orwellian-named “Operation Peace Spring,” Ankara may now face the risk of US economic sanctions.…

By Andrew Korybko President Putin gave an extensive interview to Arab media before departing for Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but it’s useful to highlight some of the most relevant parts in case interested observers don’t have the time to watch it in full or skim through the transcript since the Russian leader powerfully refutes the Alt-Media narrative that his country is supposedly “allied” with the Resistance against the GCC and “Israel”. President Putin’s extensive interview that he gave to Arab media before departing for the Gulf is extremely informative in that it authoritatively reveals the true nature of Russia’s foreign policy…

Sarah Abed, political analyst On Monday, after a weekend of bloody chaos in northeastern Syrian brought on by Turkey’s cross border military incursion “Operation Peace Spring” which included airstrikes, ISIS prison breaks, and a continuation of the exodus we’ve seen over the past few days of over a hundred thousand civilians fleeing their homes, President Trump signed an Executive Order authorizing sanctions against current and former Turkish government officials and anyone who is contributing to Turkey’s actions in destabilizing northeast Syria. In a formal statement, published by the White House, President Trump went on to say that steel tariffs will…

Syrian government troops have entered the northern Kurdish-held city of Manbij on the sixth day of Turkey’s aggression against the Arab country, state media says. Syria’s official news agency SANA made the announcement without providing further details. A local official in Manbij also confirmed that troops had “entered (Manbij) and deployed on front lines.” Manbij was liberated from the Daesh terrorist group in 2016. Since then, it has been controlled by the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an anti-Damascus alliance of predominantly Kurdish militants. The development came a day after Syrian government forces and the Syrian Kurds struck an…