Commentaries And Analysis On Turkey's Invasion Of Northwest Syria

Tom Demerly, We Are The Mighty/The Aviationist: Turkey just had its own 'Black Hawk Down' moment in Syria

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Commentaries And Analysis On Turkey's Invasion Of Northwest Syria

Turkey’s Presence in Afrin Shows Complex Syrian Conflict ‘Nowhere Near Ending’ -- Sputnik
Turkey’s offensive in Syria: Why a muted response from the US and Russia? -- Deger Akal, DW
Trump's First War? Turkey Declares a Military Frontline Against America -- Simon A. Waldman, Haaretz
Why Are U.S. Allies Killing Each Other In Syria? -- Peter Kenyon, NPR
Turkey's Attack on the Kurds Is a Betrayal of the U.S. -- Noah Feldman, Bloomberg
The US alliance with Turkey just lunged toward the breaking point -- Washington Post
Turkey Wants to Crush US Allies in Syria. That Shouldn't Surprise Anybody. -- Foreign Policy
Understanding Turkey's endgame in Syria -- Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN
Syrian conflict: Where does the Assad regime stand on the Afrin offensive? -- Wesley Dockery, DW
What is Russia's end game in Afrin? -- Umut Uras & Tamila Varshalomidze, Al Jazeera