By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A timeline of events in eastern Syria during the period the US announced a withdrawal and the time the SDF signed an agreement with Damascus. ALL […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For all the voices now in the US trying to justify Trump’s Syria policy, saying “the US didn’t abandon the Kurds and eastern Syria.” Ummm…when the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On the eve of Turkey’s threatened invasion of eastern Syria, accelerated by US President Donald Trump’s October 6 decision to turn over the anti-ISIS campaign to […]
Why did Iraqi forces shoot protesters? A look at the background and details from October 1 to 5 A version of this article appeared at The Jerusalem Post, this one […]
I received this in September and forgot to post it, posting it now just for future reference. Lieutenant Colonel James Dunphy, lead CENTCOM Eager Lion planner: “Eager Lion, U.S. Central […]
Al-Saadi removed Bracketed by high-level trips to Saudi Arabia and Iran the Prime Minister of Iraq sought to remove one of the country’s most famous soldiers, Lt. Gen. Abdulwahab al-Saadi […]
The 70th anniversary China National Day parade included some impressive numbers of soldiers and new technology on displace. According to reports President Xi Jinping inspected more than 15,000 troops and “more than […]
Drones or UAVs have become increasingly important on the battlefield. They are used by proxies and terrorists and by states. In 2019 this became highly visible as Iran shot down […]
Iran’s goal: Turn Yemen into Saudi’s Vietnam By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Videos published by pro-Houthi and pro-Iranian media appear to show hundreds of Saudi-backed fighters routed by the Houthi rebels […]
A version of this appeared at The Jerusalem Post By SETH J. FRANTZMAN MOUNT QARACHOGH, Iraq – A long mountain that juts from the flat plains like a knife today separates Kurdish […]
