Turkey's President Erdogan, escalating to genocide in his counterinsurgency against the Kurds, called for the prosecution of Syria's Assad by the International Criminal Court.
Erdogan cynically blames the mounting terror attacks in Turkey on Kurdish miitants—as Europe grooms his consolidating dictatorship as a buffer state to keep refugees at bay.
Kurds officially declared their own "Federation of Northern Syria"—to be swiftly denounced by the Assad regime, the opposition and regional powers alike.
The announced Russian military withdrawal from Syria has raised suspicions of a quiet deal between Putin and Obama for the partitiion of country into "spheres of influence."
The High Negotiations Committee of Syrian opposition groups will attend UN-brokered talks with the Damascus regime—but Kurdish leaders will have no seat at the table.
Kuwait's Supreme Court upheld the four-year prison sentence against an activist found guilty of insulting judges on Twitter—the latest in a string of such convictions for illegal tweeting.
With a lull in the fighting since the Syria "ceasefire," civil movements now re-emerge in the "free" areas, residents filling the streets under the slogan "The Revolution Continues."
Russian and Syrian regime warplanes are deliberately attacking hospitals and other medical facilities as part of their drive on Aleppo, Amnesty International charges.
A Turkish court released two journalists who were arrested last year after reporting that the Ankara government was running a smuggling operation to arm Islamist factions in Syria.
Overshadowed by the greater carnage across the border in Syria, Turkey's east is exploding into full-scale war—with Kurdish districts under siege from military forces.
Amid confused fighting in northern Syria, accusations are mounting that the Rojava Kurds are collaborating with Russia—and, by extension, the genocidal Bashar Assad regime.
The Israeli security establishment and its neocon allies are divided between those who would destabilize Assad and those who would prop him with up as the Devil they know.
