Passionfish12Syria Turkey holding 50 US nuclear bombs 'hostage' at air base, report saysFox News - Melissa LeonOfficials are reviewing plans to evacuate up to 50 U.S. nuclear bombs that have long been stored at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey in the wake of Ankara's military offensive in northern Syria, according a
Passionfish12Kurdistan Fearing US abandonment, Kurds kept back channels wide openAssociated Press - By MATTHEW LEE and SARAH EL DEEB, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — When Syria's Kurdish fighters, America's longtime battlefield allies against the Islamic State, announced over the weekend that they were switching sides and joining up with Damascus
Passionfish12U.S. Air Force U.S. Airpower Makes Show Of Force To Protect Troops In Syria As Security Situation UnravelsThe Drive - By Joseph Trevithick As American troops withdraw in northern Syria, it looks as if Turkey is on a collision course with the Assad regime and its Russian backers. U.S. Air …
Passionfish12Russia Turkey Committing War Crimes Against Kurds, SDF Argues to UN, ICCpjmedia.com - By Bridget Johnson The Syrian Democratic Forces appealed to multiple international bodies with images of their mutilated soldiers in arguing that Turkey is committing …
Passionfish12Kurdistan Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironiesyahoo.com - Victor Davis Hanson Outrage met Donald Trump’s supposedly rash decision to pull back U.S. troops from possible confrontational zones between our Kurdish friends in Syria …
Passionfish12Conservative View Turkey and the Kurds: It’s More Complicated Than You ThinkNational Review - Andrew C. McCarthy We are grateful for the Kurds' help, and we should try to help them in return. But no one wants to risk war with Turkey. On Monday, President Trump …
Passionfish12 Iranian Supreme Leader Orders Construction of Advanced Weaponryfreebeacon.com Iranian supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the country's fighting forces to construct cutting-edge military technology to take on the …
Passionfish12 Trump Sends Emergency Delegation to Turkey Amid Bloody Offensive in Syriafreebeacon.com A delegation of senior Trump administration officials will depart for Turkey "as soon as possible" to negotiate a ceasefire following Ankara's bloody …
Passionfish12Conservative View First Border-Crossing Terrorist Is On Trial, And The Media Won't Cover Itthefederalist.com - Todd Bensman Many who have professionally worried, as did former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, that violent jihadists might illegally …
Passionfish12Conservative View Why Trump Is Absolutely Right To Get U.S. Troops Out Of Syriathefederalist.com - Sumantra Maitra In a surprising late-night statement (late for the U.K., anyway), last week the White House declared that American troops would move aside and let …
Passionfish12Middle East Turkey-Syria offensive: Kurds reach deal with Syrian armyBBC NewsThe Kurds in Syria say the Syrian government has agreed to send its army to the northern border to try to halt Turkey's offensive against them. Syrian state media earlier reported that government forces
Passionfish12Mark Esper US pulling out of northern Syria; full withdrawal possibleAssociated Press - By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The United States appears to be heading toward a full military withdrawal from Syria amid growing chaos , cries of betrayal and signs that Turkey's invasion could fuel a broader war.
Passionfish12Turkey US rethinking the 50-plus nuclear weapons it keeps in TurkeyQuartz - Tim FernholzTurkish forces are pushing into northern Syria, replacing and sometimes even firing on the US troops retreating at Donald Trump’s orders. The question of whether Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic
Passionfish12Russia Kurds strike deal with Russia, Assad regime to stave off TurkeyMSNBC - MSNBC.com President Trump's twin agendas of stamping out ISIS and moving American Troops out of what he calls 'endless wars' in the Middle East are colliding …
Passionfish12 Kurdish forces partner with Syrian army to defend against TurkeyFox NewsThe deal was brokered by Russia in an effort to push back against the Turkish invasion following the announcement that hundreds of ISIS prisoners have escaped; Trey Yingst reports. The deal was brokered
Passionfish12Human Rights Turkish airstrikes in Syria reportedly target journalist convoy, civilians; at least 9 deadFox News - Frank MilesFresh airstrikes from Turkey reportedly targeted civilians and a group of foreign reporters in the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn, according to monitoring groups and Syrian Kurdish officials. The Syrian
Passionfish12Kurdistan Turkey bombing Syrian border occupied by Kurds continuesMSNBC - MSNBC.com Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out of northern Syria enabling Turkey to attack the Kurds, who have been a fighting force on the ground …
Passionfish12United States U.S. deploying 3,000 troops, advanced equipment to Saudi ArabiaThe Washington Times - By Guy Taylor The U.S. military is significantly increasing troop deployments to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Friday, announcing that 3,000 American personnel — …
Passionfish12Conservative View A Tale of Two BattlesNational Review - David French Fallujah and Raqqa are a stark illustration of the difference between fighting sworn enemies of America with allies and fighting without allies. I …
Passionfish12Conservative View The America-First ChimeraNational Review - Michael Brendan Dougherty Trump’s rhetoric about ending stupid and wasteful wars in the Middle East is not matched by the reality of policy. Over at Townhall.com, Kurt …
Passionfish12Al-Qaeda Saudi man sentenced to 12 years for hiding attendance at Al Qaeda training campFox News - Louis CasianoA former Oklahoma resident was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for visa fraud and concealment of his attendance at an Al Qaeda training camp, authorities said Thursday. Naif Abdulaziz M. Alfallaj,
Passionfish12Oil Iranian oil tanker near Saudi Arabia coast hit by missiles, officials sayFox News - Lucia Suarez SangAn Iranian oil tanker cruising 60 miles off the coast of Saudi Arabia was rocked by a pair of missiles Friday, briefly causing an oil leak and more broadly threatening to further inflame fraught regional
Passionfish12Military Navy Pilot Says ‘Dark Mass’ Made Torpedo DisappearPopular Mechanics - By Andrew DanielsIf it wasn’t a submarine, what the hell was it? You might not know the name David Fravor, but you probably know what he saw … even if he’s still not sure what that was. Fravor is the retired U.S. Navy
Passionfish12Turkey Turkey opens ground assault on Syria's Kurds; U.S. Republicans turn...Reuters - Mert OzkanAKCAKALE, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies attacked Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Wednesday, pounding them with air strikes and artillery before starting a cross-border
Passionfish12Syrian Democratic Forces Syria Update: Turkey Is Blowing the Hell Out of It and the Russians Are CheeringEsquire - By Charles P. PierceEverything you knew was going to happen is happening in northern Syria. Everything the president* should have known was going to happen—or, at the very least, vaguely care about happening, had he a shred
Passionfish12Military Iran Unveils New Tank-Killing Ground DronesPopular Mechanics - By Kyle MizokamiThe pint-sized 6x6 drones could prove dangerous to tanks and other armored vehicles. The Iranian Army recently showed off a small remote-controlled military vehicle on Twitter that could prove a big danger
Passionfish12Syria Turkey Launches Offensive Against Kurdish Fighters in Northern Syriahaaretz.com - Reuters and The Associated Press Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies have launched their military operation into northeastern Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, …
Passionfish12Israel Defense Forces Kissinger wants Israel to know: The U.S. saved you during the 1973 war - U.S. News - Haaretz - Israel News |haaretz.com Henry A. Kissinger, now 90 years old and anything but retired, sat in the Manhattan offices of Kissinger Associates one morning in the summer of …
Passionfish12Military How America's A-10 Warthogs Will Destroy Iran's Navy in a Warnationalinterest.org - Robert Beckhusen Small attack boats are no match.Key Point: A-10s are anti-tank planes but they also have a great anti-ship role.It doesn’t necessarily take the …
