The autonomous area commonly known as Rojava, sitting in Northeastern Syrian Kurdistan, is facing an existential struggle. The Syrian administration in Damascus has initiated a military assault on the region in an effort to undermine its autonomy and bring it under central control. The assault has been led by state forces and allied factions of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)…
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When President Donald Trump launched a series of airstrikes in Nigeria on Christmas, he described it as an attack against “ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” But locals in a town that was hit during the strike say terrorism has never been a problem for them. On Friday, CNN published a report based on…
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President Donald Trump — the self-described “most anti-war president in history” — has now ordered the bombing of more countries than any president in history as US forces carried out Christmas day strikes on what the White House claimed were Islamic State militants killing Christians in Nigeria. “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly…
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