Not headlineworthy in the USA?

[Anomalocaris]

Yes, you're right. of course. That's not newsworthy. A NATO member state and supposed ally in the fight against ISIS attacking the one and only faction that had some success isn't newsworthy at all. Let's hear it for international stupidity and the craving to be fucked up the ass by a wannabe dictator.

The US is more interested in diminishing Russia than diminishing ISIS. The US also sees a resurgent turkey as a useful barrier to keep Europe from any power vacuum a diminshed Russia would leave in the middleeast and Central Asia.

[Anomalocaris]

People in the middle east killing each other is not news, in the sense of "dog bites man is not news....man bites dog IS news."

They INVENTED organized warfare in the Middle East. 

Come again? Organized warfare was originally invented in the Middle East, and has been a feature of the Middle East longer than anywhere else?

[Minimalist]

Syria is disorganized warfare.  We don't even know who to bomb.


It's driving McSame crazy.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

They INVENTED organized warfare in the Middle East. 

Come again?  Organized warfare was originally invented in the Middle East, and has been a feature of the Middle East longer than anywhere else?

Yep.

[RobertE]

Title is a little bit and intentionally provocative. Because noone so far picked up on it. It doesn't matter if Turkey is on good terms with the Kurds. If we are out to fight ISIS, we bloody well need the Kurds. Even more so, since they are the only ones capturing settlements occupied by ISIS and because we know shit about all the other obscure groups and their ultimate goals.

So Turkey is basically fucking the combined goal right now. But that doesn't seem to be of any interest to the American public. Maybe so because there have been some news these last few days of the American government giving Turkey carte blanche for doing what they're doing. If true, and I have no reason to doubt our more serious networks, this is the equivalent of fucking themselves up the ass.

It maybe provocative, but it is true. I was just reading something about how the Kurds were being treated by the Turks and have been so for a long time. All we hear on the media is the Israel-Palestine conflict, and then all the muslims protest about the treatment of Palestinians. However, the Kurds are doing a sterling job against ISIS, and they know the consequences should they lose just one conflict, and nothing from the Muslims about it. Go go Kurds!!!!!

[Minimalist]

[downbeatplumb]

???  It's in my newsfeed, I'm in the USA.  Pretty much par for the course in the region - at present- isn't it?  Hell, it isn't even a new thing...Turkey hasn't been on good terms /w the kurds at any point in my memory (and vv).  Now that they;re talking about keeping their spoils (as in the cities they take in the fight against ISIS)...as a psuedo-kurdistan, it's pretty much a given that turkey will lose their shit over it.

If were gonna build a wall can we build it around the middle east.

[Minimalist]

Hey look.... they did it again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/world/...ss&emc=rss

CAIRO — A powerful car bomb rocked the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, on Monday morning, killing at least 54 young military recruits who were preparing to join government forces and wounding scores, officials said.

This time it did make the news.

[purplepurpose]

You gotta be a masochist to watch those depressive news.

[Faith No More]

Yeah, it made the news over here. It just didn't make the big headlines like Dwayne Wayne's cousin getting shot on the streets of southside Chicago or Colin Kaepernick not standing for the national anthem. That's not surprising, though. I bet a large chunk of Americans would have a hard time finding Syria on the map.

What was surprising to me, though, was the lack of coverage of the child suicide bomber killing 50+ people at that wedding in Turkey, which is pretty much the reason Turkey has gotten off their ass in the first place. I guess a bunch of kids getting massacred here in the States isn't news if they're brown.