Don't you see the situation.
SDF/YPG is protected by the US (minus their Afrin canton). Touching them on a large scale is therefor near impossible. Opposition/rebels are collapsing slowly as the SAA is taking the upper hand and he's not going to fall. The SAA-'FSA' war can be dragged on for...
Looks like the saudis are showing their colors again.
Few humvees put out of service vs a huge portion of Eastern Mosul liberated whilst the attack is still from only one axis using a collateral damage minimizing house to house strategy, that doesn't equal failure.
That said, Saudi arabia =...
USA supports ISF (Iraqi security forces), not PMF(Hashd). Trump says a lot to get people to cheer, don't take that to too serious.
Either way this ME situation is only getting worse. Raqqa is far from being touched/liberated, the SDF doesn't seem up to the job, they will milk the situation...
Sulome doesn't know the difference between a flag and a badge. This post is false, US is not training hashd.
Journalists as usual, either lying or unaware of what they call themselves experts of.
Didn't say that IS would deal with Turkey and the Gulf, I said IS presented an opportunity to create a Sunni authority.
In 2014 and 2015 the US congress was proposing bills to bypass Baghdad to deal with the KRG directly and find a Sunni authority, this Sunni authority could've been set up with...
Cuz IS takeover created the possibility for superpowers (USA) to bypass Baghdad, (create Sunni state).
thats fine negotiate with whoever u want if it helps defeating terrorism. Also RIP for todays casualties in Turkey's stadium bombing
GCC failed both attempts though, a corridor through Iraq with their ISIS has failed, in Syria it's failing. Now Turkey is better off dropping the GCC terror funders and correcting relations with Syria, Iraq, Russia (as now) and Iran. These countries are your neighbors and affect your borders...
I'm not sure if closing that last link was a good idea, now they'll stay in urban territories making it a hard fight / war of attrition. Although, if they'd flee they'd take civilians with them to try and deter airpower from raining down on them.
In Fallujah OP IS was given an open corridor...
I do understand.
I don't think they will go independent (anytime soon). After the defeat of IS there will be renewed problems between Baghdad and KRG (Barzanistan | PUK) both separately, this is when they will be in a far more vulnerable state which explains why they have been digging trenches...
23 billion $ are US expenses on its own military forces in Iraq as well as contractors hired by the US department of defense, not aid to Iraq despite what articles claim. US military aid to Iraq in the form of equipment is far from reaching billions, the most expensive American arms wielded by...
Anyone that knows Iraq's politics would ignore this news and save himself the effort, barzani uses this independence nonsense as a card every year for over a decade now, meanwhile they're stuck to Iraq which we all aren't happy about.
The troublemakers are religious figures who are given free reign in Saudi, Qatar. And yes also in Iran but one has to start solving the problem, now it would be nice to hear about their execution instead. The great Nasser dealt well with the problem