Euronews |Rachael Kennedy: Emmanuel Macron raised eyebrows across Europe after suggesting the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is experiencing "brain death" in the current geopolitical climate. The French president's comments to The Economist pointed toward perceived self-serving actions of several member nations that he says are in breach ...

Euronews | Vivi VitalonewithNBC News World News: The Kurdish expression "No friends but the mountains" has become more painfully true in recent weeks. On Oct. 26, a U.S.-led raid killed the world's most wanted terrorist, the Islamic State group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, thanks to a Kurdish forces informant who was a spy in the terror group'sinner ...

LobeLog | Paul R. Pillar: Confusion has prevailed regarding the purposes of the U.S. troop presence in Syria, and whether the declared purposes are the actual ones. Originally the expedition was widely understood to be all about combating the Islamic State (ISIS) after the group had established a mini-state on a large portion of Syrian and Iraqi territory....

Sputnik News - As convoys of American troops withdrew from northern Syria and crossed into Iraq, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that a small contingent of US Special Forces would remain in eastern Syria. During a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Monday, Donald Trump announced that a few troops would be staying in different parts of ...

RT | Fyodor Lukyanov: Let's factor all the official statements, political campaigns, personal relations and 'credit history' of the Syrian conflict out of the equation, and take a look at the current situation as seen by the main players on the ground. All players seem to be coordinating their moves quite well. The United States, in a bid to deliver ...

The Wall Street Journal | Gerald F. Seib: In the tortured history of U.S.-Iranian relations, no American leader has been as intent on making life difficult for Iran as has President Trump. He has exerted economic pressure, diplomatic pressure, even indirect military pressure. The great paradox of the moment, then, is thatMr. Trumps ...

Al-Monitor | Julian Pecquet: As Turkish troops fought Kurdish militants over the past week, a parallel but bloodless battle played out among Iran hawks in Washington over the wisdom of the US pullout from northeast Syria. Bipartisan condemnation of President Donald Trump's perceived green light to Ankara for its assault against former Kurdish US ...

Press TV - US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says all of the American troops pulling out of northeastern Syria will move to western Iraq. The US withdrawal continues apace from northeastern Syria... were talking weeks not days, Esper told reporters en route to the Middle East late on Saturday, noting that the process is being conducted via aircraft ...

Independent |Ahmed Aboudouh: Donald Trumps decision to pull US forces out of Syria, paved the way for Turkey to push the Kurds away from its borders but also facilitated a comeback by Iran in one of the most strategic areas in the Middle East. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were pushed into a deal with President Bashar al-Assads regime, Irans ...

Euronews | Dana Stroul:To explain President Donald Trumps most recent decision to withdrawU.S. forces from Syria, the White House issued a statement Monday insisting that America had defeated the territorial Caliphate of ISIS. But this obscures the point. While ISIS was pushed out of the final bit of territory it held in March, there is no shortage ...

Press TV - Syrians fled on foot and by car from border towns as Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Wednesday (October 9), a news agency reported. Video posted online by North Press Agency appears to show civilians leaving the Syrian towns Tel Abyad and Sari Kani, as plumes of smoke rose into the air....

SANA Syria condemned in strongest terms the hostile intentions of the Turkish regime and the military build-up at the Syrian borders, affirming that they constitute an outrageous violation of the international law and renewing determination to confront the Turkish aggression by all legitimate means. A source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry ...

MNA Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed Turkey's operation in northeastern Syria and the safe zone in a phone call, reports said Wednesday. According to Daily Sabah, Erdo?an claimed that the planned operation will contribute to peace and stability in Syria and will pave the way for the political ...

SANA - Russian President, Vladimir Putin, discussed with members of the Russian National Security council the latest developments in Syria and the need for avoiding any acts that pose threat to the solution to the crisis in the country. Participants in the meeting discussed, in details, the situation in Syria in light of the escalation in the north-...

TASS - US President Donald Trump said he had warned Turkey about the inadmissibility of striking US troops or allies in Syria during Ankaras planned military operation in northeastern Syria. "Weve been in Syria for many years. You know, Syria was supposed to be a short-term hit - just a very short-term hit. And we were supposed to be in and out....

SANA - SANAs reporter in Hasaka said that the Turkish regimes army on Monday evening launched an assault on a number of areas in Hasaka northeastern countryside. He added that the reported information indicated that the aggression targeted a site near Simalka illegitimate corridor on the Syrian-Iraqi borders and Tal Tawil in the countryside of al-...

MNA US Senator Marco Rubio, in his Monday Tweet, named US retreat in Syria 'a grave mistake' of Trump administration, which proves Iran's view about it. "If reports about US retreat in Syria are accurate, the Trump administration has made a grave mistake that will have implications far beyond Syria," he tweeted. "It would confirm Iran's view ...

Euronews | Adam EdelmanwithNBC News Politics: A long list of Republicans including several top allies of President Donald Trump lined up in vehement opposition on Monday to the president's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from the northern border of Syria and allow a Turkish operation there. The announcement marked a major blow to the Kurdish-...

The Guardian | Martin Chulov: It is unclear whether Turkey has the will or capacity to take over detention camps In early 2015, as Islamic State trampled over armies of the Middle East and menaced the west, the US turned to the Kurds for help. It was a familiar call, having been repeated over the decades whenever Washington needed a friend in the ...

The Wall Street Journal | Raja Abdulrahim: President Trumps decision to step out of the way of a Turkish offensive in northern Syria renews pressure on the Kurdish ethnic group and the forces that helped it establish a semiautonomous region in the country. The Kurdish ethnic minority group, with a distinct language and culture, is spread across ...