Will the U.S. Arming of Kurdish-led Northeast Rebels in Syria Provoke Turkey? (Video)
Posted on Oct 13, 2015
By Juan Cole
The intrepid Anne Barnard and Karim Shoumali at the NYT have a piece on how Saudi-supplied TOW anti-tank weapons to rebels in Hama and Idlib are creating a US-Russian proxy struggle in northwest Syria (the CIA is actually the source of the weapons, with Saudi intelligence acting as the pass-through agency).
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