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Mike Pompeo’s Day According to His Twitter Feed: Talked to Norway re: NATO US re-evaluating relations with South Sudan Congratulates PM if Republic of Mauritius Honored State Dept. won “One Team Award” award organization thing Thanked Foreign Minister of Qatar for meeting Says Court of Justice of the European Union should not promote BDSThanked ForeignContinue reading “Nov 13 (5/5): Off the Beaten Track”

White House Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Is Committed to Direct Engagement and Diplomacy with Turkey President Donald J. Trump Is Committed to Direct Engagement and Diplomacy with Turkey American and Turkish peoples have been friends and allies for many, many decades. President Donald J. Trump ENGAGING ON CRITICAL ISSUES: President Donald J. TrumpContinue reading “Nov 13 (4/5): Trump-Erdogan Meeting”

For some reason, there’s only been buzz about this more recently, at least on the “channels” I’m looking at. How has this not come up before? CBN News:’We Will be Violent Against the Unbelievers’: Erdogan Hints Syria Invasion Really Islamic Holy War MEMRI reports that on October 25, in a speech at the Çamlica Mosque inContinue reading “Nov 13 (3/5): Turkey’s Holy War? + Brief RU”

Yeni Şafak: Turkey-backed SNA responds to attacks by YPG/PKK At least 198 SNA soldiers martyred in terrorist attacks since launch of Turkey-led anti-terror operation in northern Syria News Service 12 NOVEMBER 2019, 02:48 Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) continued to fight the YPG/PKK terrorists, who targeted the frontlines and areas liberated from terrorists by Turkey’sContinue reading “Nov 13 (2/5): Turkish News”

US (D of State): We Need Local Partner to Fight ISIS: SDF Senior State official says the US has made clear to Ankara that the US cannot operate in NE Syria against ISIS without a local partner–the SDF. "It’s that simple and we’ve made that very clear. I have made that very clear to TurkeyContinue reading “Nov 13 (1/5): Friends or Allies?”

Not really surprising, but Tall Tamir is a tire fire. Tire fires burn in Til Temir tonight – the only defense which can be mustered against the Turkish strike drones responsible for the majority of deaths on the frontlines around the city. One Christian @SyriacMFS fighter has been killed today as Turkey continues to attack.Continue reading “Nov 12 (5/5): Tal Tamer is a Tire Fire”

Shots Fired! Little Changes Turkish forces patrolling the Kobanî on have fired upon civilians perhaps leaving four dead. This attack does not appear to have led to an escalation of the conflict. RUDAW: Turkish convoy kills protesters in Northern Syria: SDF How is this possible?: It continues to appear, to me anyway, that until the WednesdayContinue reading “Nov 12 (4/5): Shots Fired! Nothing Happens”

So I had been doing a catch all Bad Guys Doing Bad Guys thing post for some stuff of maybe interest, but then Israel shouted, “Hold my beer!” Anyway, the reason I was getting around to the other post was because, since the bombings in Qamishli this morning, not much of note has happened onContinue reading “Nov 12 (3/5): Run Down”

This was going to a greater elaboration of Bad Guys Doing Bad Guy Things, but then someone started firing missiles at someone and I had to go chek that out. Bad Guys Hate Art Militants wrecking priceless historical art. Interesting that many sources are starting to go more granular in their identifications of which militantsContinue reading “Nov 12 (2/5): Bad Stuff”

Air Strike on Damascus NYTimes: Damascus Attack Hit Islamic Jihad Official’s Home, Group Says Reuters: Syrian army fires on ‘hostile’ target in skies west of Damascus: state TV Quick hits: Explosion in Damascus, near the Lebanese embassy. Syrian Army fired on something in the sky The Internets is claiming Israel. This comes concurrently with Israel announcingContinue reading “Nov 12 (1/5): Air Strike on Damascus”