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  1. Gulf regimes’ sectarian push unpacked

    Syria.” Qatar and Syria However, there were rivalries among the Gulf states, β€œQatar saw the Arab Spring as ... uprising in Syria. Given positive coverage in the Gulf media, the Syrian rebellion attracted support from ... Sunnis throughout the Gulf. Matthiesen says: β€œIndeed, Syria became the mirror image of the Bahrain ...

  2. Kurds betrayed: How serious is the US about fighting ISIS?

    calling itself the Islamic State β€” more commonly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). It ... 23, the Turkish air force has made one strike against ISIS forces in Syria, in which it is doubtful ... unreliable ally. However, this takes the US claims about its aims in militarily intervening in Iraq and Syria ...

  3. Turkey: Erdogan’s ruthless bid to retain power risks return to dark days

    be revived and Turkey’s support for Islamist forces in Syria would end. Just two months later, such ... against ISIS in Syria actually enables the opposite. The only war Turkey has shown any willingness to ... popular forces in Rojava, the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria. ● Attack the PKK forces ...

  4. β€˜Anti-terror’ laws and solidarity with the Kurdish struggle

    fight with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State and Iraq and Syria (ISIS). ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly’s Zane ... material support for the Kurdish struggle in both Syria and Iraq. So there are various tensions, ... with. There are about 40 million Kurds spread across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran and it is only by ...