Independent.co.uk | By Asser Khattab

Refugees accuse soldiers of ethnic cleansing as some 200,000 displaced

Ahvalnews.com

Turkey’s goal of creating a “safe zone” for civilians in northern Syria is being undermined by increasing reports of abuse against the local population at the hands of Ankara-backed proxy forces, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. 

Nytimes.com | By Eric Schmitt

In an internal memo, the senior American diplomat in northern Syria criticized the Trump administration for failing to try harder to deter Turkey from invading northern Syria last month.

Ahvalnews.com

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees in Turkey to a safe zone to be established in northern Syria resonates the state-facilitated or state-enforced population transfers in the former Ottoman Empire and in recent Turkish history, analyst Nick Ashdown said in Foreign Policy on Friday. 

Rudaw.net | Roj Eli Zalla

Below is a translated, full transcript of the interview Rudaw's Roj Eli Zalla conducted with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi on November 5, 2019.

Reuters | Additional reporting by Andreas Rinke in Berlin; Editing by Giles Elgood | October 26, 2019

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany's defense minister presented to NATO her proposal for a security zone in northern Syria on Thursday, receiving support from Turkey and the United States but also a warning from the alliance's chief that it may need to involve the United Nations.

Nytimes.com | By Peter Baker, Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper

President Trump said in a nationally televised address that American forces targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the Islamic State, in an operation in Syria this weekend.

Nytimes.com | It’s certainly special for Erdogan, Putin and al-Assad.

The Times | By Anthony Loyd | October 24 2019

Most guards have been called away in the face of Turkey’s invasion, writes Anthony Loyd

nybooks.com | Bye Peter W. Galbraith | October 24, 2019

The full consequences of President Trump’s decision on October 6 to withdraw American troops and give Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a green light to invade northeast Syria are not yet clear. Erdoğan claimed that he wanted to create a twenty-mile buffer zone in which perhaps one million Syrian refugees living in Turkey could be resettled, but he may have had the ambition of turning all of northeast Syria over to the Islamists whom Turkey had sponsored in western Syria during the country’s civil war and who were largely defeated there.