Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

"It marks a betrayal of Washington's Kurdish allies, a betrayal that many other countries in the region will note with alarm," and " a stab in the back ." No, it is neither a betrayal nor a stab in the back. It has been a consistent U.S. geo-strategic policy for decades. The Kurds were used before and they are used now. It is not about Trump; despite differences, Turkey is a NATO ally.

Syria The picture drawn in this analysis precedes a recent major development: the beginning of an assault by the Syrian regimes and the militias allied to it, with Russian aid from the sky, on Idlib province, the stronghold of the opposition. That is more likely to change the facts on the ground as the opposition begins to lose areas which has controlled for the last two years. Resisting Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham

Kurds seeks to expand reach in northern Syria