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Frank Wolf

Frank Wolf

Frank Wolf served 17 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives before retiringin 2015 to focus on advancing human rights and religious freedom. He is the author of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Wolf has held numerous leadership roles, including Baylor University’s Wilson Chair in Religious Freedom and commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Rather than functioning as a restraint on power, Western engagement became a shield for it.
Homes and shrines have been destroyed or desecrated. Families have fled under threat, fearing a repetition of the horrors that defined their past.
The assault that culminated in the surrender of Kurdish sovereignty was not solely Syrian. It was engineered regionally, with Turkey as a dominant architect and beneficiary.