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Salman Rafi Sheikh

Research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs

Syrian Escalation: A US Way to Avert Defeat

While the US has suspended co-operation in bi-lateral channels with Russia over Syria and that it has explicitly threatened it with more “body bags”, the underlying and unstated objective of this frenzied behaviour and a sustained...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Erdogan is Using PKK as Cover to Corner the Kurds

While Turkey’s official narrative, with regard to the scope of operation Euphrates Shield’, is centred on eliminating the ‘militant’ PKK, ground realities hardly confirm it, and instead show that Erdogan’s current drive is mainly...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Operation ‘Euphrates Shield’ Turns Into Operation ‘Occupation’

Turkey’s operation ‘Euphrates Shield’ that had originally begun as the operation to drive the Kurdish militias back to the eastern side of Euphrates River is now turning into a mission to create a ‘safe zone’ inside Syria to...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

America ‘Accidently’ Strikes Syria: Could it Have a Different Meaning?

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Syrian Deal: Сollective Wisdom Versus Hawkish Raiders

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Syria: Turkey pushing Washington up the wall?

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Yemen: ‘Killers’ Can Give No Peace

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Erdogan-Putin Mend Relations as the West Gets Unnerved

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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