Ethiopian residents say the historic town of Lalibela was rocked by the sound of heavy artillery on Wednesday, as federal government troops fired towards areas where local militias were believed to be hiding
Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen killed five south Yemen separatists in Abyan province on Monday, in the terror group's biggest attack in the region for months
"The Syrian Kurds see the Afrin battle as an existential fight that will either mean the downfall of the Kurds in Syria, or a victory over Turkish-led Islamist proxies and the Turkish army,"
@vvanwilgenburg
reports
"When they target anybody in Manbij Military Council … they are targeting the project, not the people, not the person,"
@shervanderwish
says.
"My blood is not more expensive than other martyrs like Abu Amjad and Faisal Abu Layla."
The US should prepare for the possibility that Ukraine will need political and military support to fight an unconventional campaign against Russia,
@JennyCafarella
argues
“The Kurds are an important check on the kind of radicalism that Turkey has been pushing at all costs in Syria for the sake of regime change. The
#Kurds
deserve more from the U.S. and Russia,"
@MaxAbrahms
says
Manbij Military Council is one of the most active, decorated and bloodied Arab-majority SDF groups.
@NicholasAHeras
argues that
@coalition
agreeing to relinquish SDF/
@mmc2016c
control in Manbij would betray of some of America’s best partners in Syria •
A key point that
@StateDept
left out is that Manbij Military Council is local and majority Arab, and is a "nightmare" for Turkey because it is a model for how Syrian Arabs can support Ocalan’s ideas,
@NicholasAHeras
says
OPINION: Our honorable sacrifices in Syria deserve justice – Syrian Kurdish leader
@Xelilaldar
argues that a Turkey-run safe zone in northern Syria would undermine sacrifices that have brought relative stability to the region
'Nobody will be added to Manbij Military Council without our approval,'
@shervanderwish
says of the deal between the US and Turkey.
'We paid [with the blood of] a lot of our sons and young people to liberate this city from terrorism'
Ukraine’s military is effective against Russia because for the past eight years it was rebuilt in collaboration with NATO partners,
@AlexCecylia
argues
From Hasakah to Manbij: in his latest dispatch from Syria,
@vvanwilgenburg
reports on permits, access, and the importance of remembering your bulletproof vest
The 13-day Operation Aconit involved troops from France, Mali and Niger, with support from UK helicopters and, according to Niger's defense minister, the US. Around 40 Islamic State fighters were killed.
OPINION: It is the responsibility of the world to repay the Kurdish people and the rest of the peoples of the region for their sacrifice in the fight against ISIS
Yemen’s internal splits have festered for years, but a move towards independence for the south could change the miserable status quo,
@STCUS_ORG
's Abdulsalam Mused argues
The US has a plan to negotiate a peace deal between and Syrian allies and Ankara, but no one has told Syrian Democratic leaders, who were left on their own to stave off a host of predatory neighbors as Washington went on Christmas break
Iraq, including Kurdistan, relies on the Euphrates and Tigris for 98 percent of its water, and hydroelectric dam building in Turkey is ratcheting up cross-border tensions,
@D_abdulkader
writes
“I take Turkey at its word that Afrin isn’t the last stop. We should expect Turkey and its Free Syrian Army henchmen to try to mop up other Kurdish areas too, like in Manbij,"
@MaxAbrahms
says
Taiwan's president says defense spending will reach record $19 billion in 2024, a demonstration of the island’s “determination to ensure national security”
JUST IN: UK Prime Minister Theresa May says the nerve agent used to poison Sergei Skripal has been identified as a military-grade nerve agent of the Novichok group developed by Russia
As modern Russian EW/EA systems get towed into barns by Ukrainian farm tractors, it could not be clearer how epically Russia failed in the EMS battlespace, USAF Colonel (Retired)
@JeffFisch
writes
New military councils set up by the SDF in northeast Syria "are not part of the broader counter-ISIS campaign anymore. They’re now part of a process in the system to provide local security and prevent the reemergence of ISIS,”
@NicholasAHeras
said.
The Manbij Conundrum: The collapse, or eviction by military force, of the SDF from Manbij would have dire consequences for the stability of the entire US mission to build stability in the wake of the ISIS in Syria
Japan will begin offering aid to militaries of "like-minded countries" under new rules, as Tokyo builds more proactive defense strategy to address growing threats