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Tag: northern Syria

Turkey looks beyond its own region with Libya adventure

by Omer Taspinar January 8, 2020February 18, 2020

Turkey’s authoritarian leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, likes to tout his country as a regional superpower with an imperial legacy stretching over centuries and over continents. In fact, modern Turkey is something altogether different. Its military dominance has been confined to its immediate neighborhood, and consists mainly of fighting Kurdish militant groups in northern Syria and […]

Turkey forcing Europe to deal with ISIS returnees

by Faisal Al Yafai December 12, 2019February 18, 2020

Displaced Syrians bargaining chips again

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by Jim Pollard and Alison Tahmizian Meuse October 16, 2019February 18, 2020

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