Middle East
The tally of the resolution, which recognizes the 1915 Turkish massacre of 1.5 million Armenians, was 405-11. The tally of the sanctions bill was 403-16.
Four experts of geostrategic analysis and business consultancy at Wikistrat experts weigh in on the long-term significance of the Islamic State leader’s death.
While Turkey’s invasion of northeast Syria is bad news for Tehran, the exit of U.S. forces more than makes up for this development, according to a former Israeli defense official.
U.S. Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer responded to questions at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., about U.S. naval preparedness amid domestic and geopolitical challenges.
“What [Russian President Vladimir] Putin wants is a resolution to the Syria crisis on his terms,” said Anna Borshchevskaya of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “And he is closer to that resolution.”
President expressed confidence Turkey would do its part to maintain peace in northern Syria • Turkish and Russian patrols to start in two zones stretching six miles to east and west of area of Turkey’s “Operation Peace Spring.”
As U.S. forces leave the region, Russia and Turkey agree on a joint plan to push Kurdish YPG fighters out of a 20-mile strip along the Syria-Turkey border.
Erdoğan: Turkey will resume its assault in northern Syria “with determination” when the U.S.-brokered ceasefire expires on Tuesday if all Kurdish forces have not withdrawn from the Syria-Turkey border region.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S.-Israel alliance is “as strong as it has ever been,” and that the two discussed “all the efforts we’ve made to push back against the threat not only to Israel, but to the region and the world from the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
The U.S. Secretary State arrived to discuss the current conflict in Syria.
“We have been watching the unfolding events in Syria regarding the Kurdish community with horror and anguish,” said David Harris, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, which is planning to hold a solidarity rally in New York for the Syrian Kurds.
Sanctions would be removed once a permanent ceasefire takes effect on the condition that Turkey fight ISIS and help secure ISIS prisoners.
