by CBBSS | Jul 31, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Turkish columnist, Burak Bekdil, analyzes the current Turkish strategy in joining the fight against ISIS and allowing the U.S. to use Incirlik air base. What Ankara wants, as articulated by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, is to have an ISIS free corridor on the...
by CBBSS | Jul 31, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Nearly a year after the American-led bombing campaign against ISIS began, serious disagreements between the Obama Administration and American intelligence agencies have come to light. The administration as represented by its point man or ISIS, retired general John...
by CBBSS | Jul 31, 2021 | Regional News
Turkey has launched a criminal probe into Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of pro-Kurdish party HDP, AFP reports. Turkish prosecutors claim Demirtas incited bloody protests in October 2014. The probe comes amid a Turkish military campaign against Kurdish militants and...
by CBBSS | Jul 31, 2021 | Regional News
Zaman chronicles the rising violence in and around Turkey. Over the past week, Turkish forces have launched raids on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in Northern Iraq and Southeastern Turkey. PKK terrorists have responded by shooting and killing several...
by CBBSS | Jul 31, 2021 | Regional News
Russia is modernizing the S-300 air defense missile systems it plans to supply to Iran, RFE/RL reports. In 2010, Russia canceled an agreement to deliver the missile systems to Iran after receiving pressure from the West. But, Putin revived the arms sale in April as...