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Roy Gutman is the former McClatchy Middle East bureau chief.
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Each player had its reasons for not going forward with a cataclysmic offensive against the last rebel stronghold, in Idlib.
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This Alawite city used to support the regime, but most now believe Assad cheated his own people by sending them into an endless, pointless war.
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Critics respond to Roy Gutman’s special report on the Syrian Kurdish militia.
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The Kurdish YPG recruits fighters at gunpoint, assassinates political opponents, and suppresses the media.
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This special report, which also exposes their collusion with the Assad regime, undermines their claim to be leading a democratic, open society.
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“Let Nusra go to hell,” says a member of the Islamic police, who are despised by the people and even by their own employees.
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“It was raining mortars, some landing just 20 meters from us…”
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May 18, 2016
Massoud Barzani praises Turkey’s authoritarian leader but has harsh words for the Turkish PKK and its Syrian Kurdish offshoot.
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Mass displacement increasingly appears to be the aim of the military operation, not just a side effect, humanitarian aid officials say.
