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On October 14, an official source from the Syrian Foreign Ministry told the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) that the Syrian Arab Republic demands an “immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Turkish troops from the Syrian territories”. The official sources also condemned the ongoing Turkish Army operation in Syria’s Idlib governorate, and called it a “flagrant violation of international law”. According to SANA, the Syrian official noted that the Turkish Army units were escorted by a terrorist group, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), when they entered Idlib. “The international community should pay more attention to and take firm stance in order to oblige Turkey to end its support to terrorism which managed to shed the blood of Syrian people and destabilize the region and the entire world,” SANA quoted the sources. The official source told SANA that the Turkish Army operation “has nothing to do with what has been agreed upon by the guarantor states during the latest round of

Written by  Prof. James Petras ; Originally appeared at  Global Research Multiple wars ravage the Middle East. Turkey has inserted itself into the middle of most of these regional conflicts and ended up a loser. Under  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , Turkey has intervened and formed alliances with a rogue’s gallery of imperial warlords, terrorists-mercenaries, Zionist expansionists, feudal potentates and obscure tribal chiefs, with disastrous economic, political and military consequences for the Turkish nation. In this paper we will discuss Turkey’s domestic and foreign policies and behavior over the past decade.  We will conclude with lessons for middle range powers, which might help in future decisions President Erdogan’s Domestic Disasters Throughout the early decade of the 21 st  century, Erdoğan  made a strategic alliance with an influential semi-clandestine organization led by a cult-leading cleric,  Fethullah Gülen , who was conveniently self-exiled in the US and

In a rare, successful attack on one of the most advanced US offensive weapons, a US drone has reportedly been shot down over Afghanistan. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Voice of Jihad)  reports  that Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) said to be operated by the United States. The UAV above is believed to be a MQ-9 Reaper with a price tag of $10.5 million. The aircraft can stay airborne up to 36 hours with 1.7 tons of missiles and bombs. The wreckage of the plane is said to have been seized by the Mujahideen. So far, there has been no comment from from the US military. The location of the downed drone is in Kunduz, a city in northern Afghanistan. The attack may have been in retaliation for a US drone strike which yesterday killed 14 ISIS militants in the Kunar province, a northern boarder region in Afghanistan. According to  The Guardian , “Abdul Ghani Musamim, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told the Associated Press