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August 7, 2020
Zack Kopplin
How Mike Pompeo Built a Blood-for-Oil Pipeline
The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.
October 28, 2019
Adam Weinstein
“Blood for Oil” Is Official U.S. Policy Now
In celebrating the death of ISIS's leader, Trump shared his vision of America's goal in the Middle East: loot and plunder.
October 24, 2019
Elizabeth Tsurkov
The Syria Withdrawal’s Other Victims
While coverage has focused on the plight of Kurds, more Syrian locals and NGO workers face arrest and torture in the vacuum Trump created.
October 23, 2019
Jared Keller
The Weapons America Is Leaving Behind in Syria
Trump’s hasty troop withdrawal could trigger a second "industrial revolution" in terrorism.
October 15, 2019
Ankit Panda
Why Are U.S. Nuclear Bombs Still in Turkey?
The best time to get atomic weapons out was several years ago. The second best time is now.
October 14, 2019
Adam Weinstein
The Madman Has No Clothes
Since Nixon, presidential pundits and sycophants have tried to rationalize executive insanity. But no one was prepared for Trump’s Syria madness.
October 7, 2019
Adam Weinstein
America Is Screwing the Kurds Yet Again
Trump's withdrawal from Syria is consistent with his predecessors' treatment of the ethnic minority as a geopolitical pawn.
March 20, 2015
Joel Gillin
One Group Has Proven It Can Beat ISIS. So Why Isn't the U.S. Doing More to Help Them?
October 9, 2014
Nick Danforth
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Daphne McCurdy
Can Turkish Multiculturalism Survive the Islamic State?
October 8, 2014
Sophie Cousins
"I'm Not Afraid of Death": On the Front Lines With the Young Women Fighting ISIS
February 6, 2005
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