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The Lost Army of Cambyses – Paul Sussman
In 523 BC, the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Dune Sea his army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and lost forever. Two and a half millennia later a mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor, an antique dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo, and a British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara.
The incidents appear unconnected, but Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police is suspicious, as is the archaeologist's daughter, Tara Mullray. Lured into a labyrinth of intrigue, violence, and betrayal by a mysterious hieroglyphic fragment and rumors of a mythic lost tomb, what began as a search for the truth becomes a race for survival. Confronted by both present day adversaries and ghosts from their pasts, Khalifa and Mullray find themselves on a trail that leads into the desert's unforgiving, burning heart, and the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world.
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Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess.
We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. And Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work – suspenseful, and utterly persuasive.
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Funny, gorgeous, seriously sexy Aaron would be the perfect boyfriend – were it not for two minor character flaws: his all-consuming terror of commitment and his complete inability to remain faithful. Nevertheless, with his girlfriend Jeena faced with exile to India, Aaron conquers his deep-seated fears and agrees to marry her – for one year only. It's an arrangement between friends, that's all. After one year, they will divorce – and things will be back to normal. But it was never going to be that easy. Aaron knows nothing of the Indian way, its culture, its rituals, its idealism. When Aaron marries Jeena, he marries her extended family too. The crises, chaos and complications that follow make for a witty and hilarious read. And despite his best intentions, love has a way of creeping up on a man just when he least expects it…
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Debt crisis: America faces a decision that will affect us all
The financial crisis will force the Obama administration to make a choice that will define its future - and ours.
By Jeremy Warner 27 July 2011 • 7:59pm
Wall Street blues: America's problem is political, not economic Credit: Photo: ALAMY
To understand the origins of today's stand-off between Republicans and Democrats over the US debt crisis, it is necessary to revisit an event which took place in Boston Harbour nearly 238 years ago. On December 16, 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists boarded ships belonging to the East India Company and threw the entire cargo into the sea. There, in tax rebellion, began the American Revolution.
This iconic event in US history, the one from which the modern Tea Party takes its name, helped establish a national aversion to taxation that has remained at the heart of the American psyche ever since. For a people defined by the idea of rugged individualism, self-reliance and the frontier spirit, the presumption of low taxes – and correspondingly small government – is an article of faith as sacred as motherhood and apple pie.
Few would contest the manifold economic success that these principles have delivered. They are the very foundation of the American economic model, and helped to make the US the richest and most powerful nation the world has ever seen. But here's the problem. In recent times, both government and its spending commitments have been getting a whole lot bigger. Taxation, on the other hand, has failed to keep pace. On the contrary: under George W Bush, America reduced its tax burden even as its spending escalated. Since President Obama came to power, spending has run further out of control, with no compensating tax increases.
Hard as it is to believe in some of its states, America as a whole remains a low-tax economy in comparison with most other "rich" nations. Yet its government spending is approaching the heroic levels seen in Europe. For the time being, the gap is filled by borrowing from foreigners, a plainly unsustainable and humbling path – made all the more worrying by the fact that there are huge spending pressures still to come from the needs and demands of an ageing population. Something has to give. Either America must spend less, or tax more.
But before analysing the significance of this choice, we need to lay a couple of misconceptions about the nature of the current crisis to rest. From President Obama to Larry Summers, the former treasury secretary, to Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, to our own Vince Cable, the airwaves have been ringing with apocalyptic warnings about the likely consequences for the world economy should Congress fail to break the impasse over the debt ceiling by the August 2 deadline. Any American default, Summers has warned, would be like "Lehman on steroids… it's gonna be financial Armageddon".
Lagarde has wagged her finger at the US and urged action similar in its "courageousness" to that taken last week by the eurozone, which she somewhat optimistically seems to think has now largely solved its problems. Meanwhile, the Business Secretary, in an extraordinary and ill-advised outburst, accused "a few Right-wing nutters" in Congress of posing a bigger threat to the world economy than the trials and tribulations of the euro. To heap the blame for America's indecision on a particular ideology is to misunderstand the nature and importance of the debate – yet Mr Cable seems determined to accuse President Obama's opponents of holding the world to ransom.
Are any of these warnings valid? Well, if America were to default, it would indeed be a seismic upheaval of shattering dimensions. In reality, it's not going to happen. What's being played out here is not, at this stage at least, an existential event, but a political charade. There have been signs of distress in financial markets in recent days, but in the main, investors have displayed a remarkable lack of concern, with US Treasuries still trading at yields close to their historic lows.
They are right to be sanguine. The bottom line is that Mr Obama is not about to go down as the first president in history to default – which in any case would be to breach the Constitutional amendment stating that "the validity of the public debt of the United States shall not be questioned". Much as he would like to blame Republicans for such a calamity, he would not be able to escape responsibility. It is the President's job to find solutions. The buck ultimately stops with him.
If, by some outside chance, the President does petulantly decide to throw himself off the cliff, it will be an unnecessary and surreal type of default. America is not insolvent, in the same way that some of the peripheral economies of the eurozone plainly are. It's simply that it cannot agree on the correct balance between spending and tax. The crisis is political, not economic – which makes it quite unlike the situation in the eurozone, where it is both.
The immediate problem of the deficit – and possibly of the longer-term demographic challenges, too – could easily be solved with a single measure, the imposition of a European-style federal sales tax, akin to VAT. Yet hell will freeze over before such an abomination is agreed.
With characteristic wit, Mr Summers has summarised the issue thus: Democrats are against VAT because they see it as a regressive tax which would hit the poor, while Republicans are against it because they see it as a money machine that would entrench high state spending. Perhaps if Democrats came to appreciate its qualities as a revenue generator, and Republicans its regressive characteristics, they might actually be able to agree.
The parties have produced several rival plans for fiscal consolidation, but there's little merit in getting into the minutiae: to the outside world, they all look as flawed and implausible as each other. And the detail of the argument is, in any case, almost irrelevant compared to the titanic battle for the heart and soul of America's future that underlies it.
Does the US economy stay loyal to its low-tax, libertarian traditions, or does it retreat into serene, low-growth, European-style old age by reinforcing its social welfare programmes and charging citizens the taxes necessary to pay for them? Not since the Civil War has the nation been so polarised. If it were possible to split the US in two, and for each half to go its own way, it might provide some kind of a solution. But, ultimately, one voice must triumph over another.
For the US to forsake the principles that have underpinned its economic success for more than two centuries would be a disaster not just for the country, but for the world. European experience teaches that rising taxes almost invariably entrench higher spending. Once a culture of entitlements – a cushy, cradle-to-grave welfare state – becomes established, it's very difficult to remove. When a choice then has to be made between spending on welfare and productive investment in the nation's future – education, defence and so on – the latter is always culled first.
Paradoxically, although moving to a European-style tax base would provide all the revenues the country needs, it would inevitably mark the start of America's long retreat from military and economic hegemony, leaving the way clear for younger, alien political cultures with no love of liberty to occupy the ensuing vacuum.
Economic might is as much to do with confidence and perception as reality. The spectacle of a nation so lacking in credible political leadership that it cannot resolve its differences, threatens to default on its debts, and would rather print money than face up to its underlying economic challenges, is already perilously close to breaking the spell. America needs to wake up, before it's too late.


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I hope that your new year is coming along well. To start this year, I was not hungover (even though I had a few drinks) and even got writing done the very first day. I'm pretty proud of myself for beginning the year in a way I wanted to. At my last therapy appointment, my social worker asked me what my goals for the new year were going to be—I told him that I don't do resolutions, as I believe we can change slowly over time. But I did say that I wanted to work more on my writing, work on my health (physical health: eating better, working out, stretching, etc.), and continue making progress on my mental health. There isn't much room for more, is there?
I haven't outlined a plan yet, but I have a few ideas that should help me. Number one is stickies. I plan on putting them everywhere from "Did you remember to floss/brush your teeth?" to "Did you meditate today?" I think these reminders will help. I always get big rushes of energy and want to do so much at once, but I'm going to try to make small changes.
For my health, I've decided to eat veggies with breakfast. Which sounds gross, but I've been putting asparagus or leeks in my eggs every morning. It may not lead to totally health overhaul, but that is one extra serving of vegetables I wasn't eating before, and to me that's worthy of celebration. It reminds of the creed several of my NaNoWriMo friends say: that's one more word than you had before. It's all about the small changes we make in our lives.
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Jamaica is much more than a great travel destination where you can sit in the sun and maybe, ahem, buy a little ganja on the sly: It's a country steeped in diversity and cultural richness, which are aspects we don't get to sample often—especially in the medium of dance. The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica offers a prime opportunity to see authentic regional dances demonstrating the rituals and traditional lore of the island. For the company's 45th anniversary, choreographer Rex Nettleford includes repertoire works—as in The Crossing, a celebration of the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade—and pieces by guest choreographers such as Haiti's Jeanguy Saintus and Cuba's Arsenio Andrade-Calderon.


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WEAVERVILLE - Brandon Allen wasn't sure if he was addressing his team for the final time at the end of Thursday's 28-19 loss to Asheville High.
North Buncombe's regular season is over, but its playoff fate has yet to be decided. Allen and the Black Hawks will have to wait three weeks before they know if there is more football in their future.
"I think we've done enough to make the playoffs, but that is selfishly speaking," Allen said, laughing. "These young men have been through the gauntlet. They deserve to play at least one more game."
North Buncombe, which lost its last three games, finished the regular season 6-5 overall and 4-4 in conference play. The Black Hawks will likely finish fifth overall in the Western Mountain Athletic Conference, a position that has a recent history of being unkind to local teams.
West Henderson finished with an identical mark in 2017, but was left out of the postseason despite having a better record than several teams who earned a spot in the NCHSAA postseason.
"You look at the competition we faced this season and that we've won six games. We deserve to play again." Allen said. "What's tough now is figuring out what to do with all this time."
Due to flooding in the eastern part of the state after Hurricane Florence, the NCHSAA pushed the start of the playoffs back a week to Nov. 16. That decision has created extra time for western teams, some of which, like North Buncombe, won't know if they are in or out.
The NCHSAA will announce its playoff seeding on Nov. 10.
Allen said he planned to give his team most of next week off.
"We've been playing for 12 straight weeks, we need some time off regardless," Allen said. "Then the next week we'll start trying to prepare for a possible game."
Part of the problem, Allen said, is the current playoff system that was adopted during the most recent NCHSAA realignment.
The 20-30-30-20 concept means the largest 20 percent of schools went to Class 4A, the smallest 20 percent went to Class 1A and the remaining 60 percent were divided between Class 2A and Class 3A.
"I think it should be 25 across the board," Allen said. "I know everyone has their own opinion, but it (the current system) allows teams that don't win as much a way into the playoffs. Right now, we just have to look at it and act like we are headed to the playoffs."
The win Thursday for Asheville High assured the Cougars that they won't deal with the same stressful waiting period as their opponent.
Asheville High secured at least a fourth-place finish in the Western Mountain Athletic Conference and can clinch one of the three automatic playoff spots with a win next Friday against West Henderson.


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Subtle but Significant: January 2014 vs January 2015
Posted on February 9, 2015 by Daryl Ritchison
The image below depicts the average height of the atmosphere at 500 mb of pressure (approximately 18,000 feet above mean sea level) for January 2015 and January 2014. These lines of equal height can also be used to visualize the wind flow in the upper-atmosphere by following the lines.
With just a quick glance both graphics look similar. A trough (dip) in the mean upper-level wind flow centered over Hudson Bay with the flow over North Dakota and Minnesota coming in from the northwest. Yet, on closer examination the trough in January 2014 was sharper and the average height of the 500 mb pressure in the upper Midwest was lower than it was this year. That lower average height equates to lower temperatures. Plus, the flow over eastern North Dakota into Minnesota was more north-northwesterly bringing air from the Arctic directly into the region.
Whereas this year, the flow was more west-northwesterly bringing in a flow with a origin over the north Pacific Ocean, a much warmer air mass source region than the Arctic. With a source region over the north Pacific, in combination with a lack of snow cover this year has meant much warmer temperatures. Below is the average temperature anomaly for January 2015. Temperatures across much of the area finished 5 to 8 degrees above average last month.
January 2015 Temperature Anomalies
With a sharper trough and the upper-level wind flow bringing in more direct air from the Arctic (and often in turn Siberia) January 2014 recorded much colder temperatures than January 2015. Yet western North Dakota with a lack of snow cover did still manage above average temperatures last year. But eastern North Dakota, especially the Red River Valley recorded temperatures 5-7 degrees below average and maintained a snow pack the entire month. That made for a difference of 10 degrees from last January to this year in many locations in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.
Average Air Temperature Anomaly for January 2014
Probably forgotten in the past year by most was that January was warmest of the three principal months per temperature anomalies during the winter of 2013-2014. Both December (2013) and February (2014) recorded temperatures around 10 degrees below average.
December 2013 Temperature Anomalies
February 2014 Temperature Anomalies
With our flow this winter having subtle differences in the storm track has meant either the fast moving "storms" coming through the northwest flow have either gone through southern Canada and brought snow along and north of Highway 2 per the example below:
Northern Valley Storm Track
The other principal track as tended to be south of the Highway 10/Interstate 94 corridor per the example below.
Southern Track of Storms
The reality is a vast majority of the Northern Plains have recorded below average precipitation this winter. It is just those two tracks of lighter snows have been the most persistent for the past couple of month. With Fargo Moorhead situated in between those two dominate scenarios is why the metro has yet to record a 1 inch snow from any one singular event this season. That could easily change tomorrow as a storm takes a track through the middle (I94 corridor) of those two tracks tomorrow and therefore looks to be the best opportunity for more than a dusting of snow in and around Fargo Moorhead.
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Skip Miller Quoted by Los Angeles Times in Lawsuit Filed by Fired L.A. County Deputy
•December 10, 2019
By Alene Tchekmedyian, LA Times – December 9, 2019 – A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy whose reinstatement sparked a legal battle between the county's top elected leaders is suing again to get his job back, saying his case was handled unfairly.
Caren Carl Mandoyan requested that a judge order Sheriff Alex Villanueva to conduct a new investigation into the domestic violence allegations against him and to reinstate him, according to a writ of mandate he filed in L.A. County Superior Court last month.
In August, the judge nullified Mandoyan's original reinstatement and ordered him to turn in his gun and badge.
Key to Mandoyan's argument is a new 100-page Sheriff's Department report that concludes that Mandoyan was denied due process and that "newly discovered exculpatory information" was left out of his 2016 internal affairs investigation. If the information had been presented at the time, the report says, Mandoyan may not have been fired. Department executives initially had proposed a 20- to 25-day suspension.
It's the latest development in a saga that began when, in one of his first controversial moves in office, the newly elected Villanueva rehired Mandoyan, who had volunteered as a driver during his 2018 campaign. Mandoyan was also instrumental in assembling support of rank-and-file deputies for Villanueva, who upset incumbent Jim McDonnell.
In moving to reinstate Mandoyan, Villanueva argued that McDonnell and other prior sheriffs were too tough in punishing deputies and questioned the allegations against Mandoyan, noting that the district attorney had declined to file charges.
However, the reinstatement stoked concerns that the sheriff was rolling back critical reforms and sparked an unusual legal battle with the Board of Supervisors, who sued Villanueva, saying his rehiring of Mandoyan was unlawful. The Civil Service Commission, a county appeals board, had heard evidence and in 2018 upheld the dismissal.
In an interview, Mandoyan said he's been used as a political pawn in a campaign waged by Villanueva's detractors and vowed to keep fighting to return to the force.
"I'm not going to walk away from it knowing that somebody falsely accused me. So if they do it to me, who's to say they're not going to do it to anyone else?" Mandoyan said. "This whole political retaliation has destroyed my entire life."
Louis "Skip" Miller, an attorney representing L.A. County, called the new action frivolous and dismissed the Sheriff's Department's report as hearsay.
"It's completely self-serving, it would never be admitted in a court of law," Miller said. "I'm disputing the underlying — the validity, authenticity, honesty of the report itself. It's preposterous."
A hearing on Mandoyan's new legal bid is set for February.
Miller said two judges have already weighed in on Mandoyan's case. One in August overturned Mandoyan's reinstatement and, more recently, a federal judge tossed his retaliation lawsuit, saying the former deputy's claims were already litigated before the Civil Service Commission, which upheld his termination.
"You have a Superior Court judge and a federal court judge who both said: No. He was not properly reinstated," Miller said. "For him to go for a third bite at the apple is… it's ridiculous."
Greg Smith, Mandoyan's attorney, said that when he learned of the new internal report, dated Oct. 1, he submitted a records request to the Sheriff's Department and within five days received 615 pages of material, including the report and attached exhibits with some redactions.
When asked about Mandoyan's new lawsuit, the Sheriff's Department directed a reporter to Villanueva's July statement saying that the Board of Supervisors and their lawyers are "desperately trying to persuade public opinion by improperly releasing allegations" to The Times. "We eagerly look forward to sharing the facts in the courtroom," the statement said.
Villanueva had publicly defended Mandoyan's rehiring, saying the deputy was denied due process, while raising concerns about his accuser's credibility. His position prompted complaints from advocates who work with domestic violence victims.
The Office of the Inspector General has said its review "yielded no evidence" that Mandoyan's due process rights were violated. Inspector General Max Huntsman declined to comment on the Sheriff's Department's October report.
Mandoyan was fired in 2016 by then-Sheriff McDonnell after a fellow deputy he had dated alleged that he grabbed her by the neck, tried to break into her home and sent her harassing text messages. Video footage released in the case appeared to show Mandoyan trying to break into the woman's apartment using a metal tool.
Mandoyan denied the allegations. Smith said his client was just trying to get the woman's attention and that it would have been impossible for him to break into the apartment through the fixed side of the sliding glass door.
In the October report, the Sheriff's Department identifies "new information which would have directly refuted some of the allegations" against Mandoyan.
It said a deputy who was friends with both the woman and Mandoyan during their relationship was quoted in a March ABC7 article saying that she had asked the woman if she'd been abused.
"She made it crystal clear to me — no, I have not been hit, I have not been pushed. I would be the one to kick his ass," Deputy Lisa Richardson told the station about her conversation with Mandoyan's accuser. She said she was also interviewed by the Sheriff's Department, according to the report.
Mandoyan's attorney didn't know about Richardson's statement and therefore didn't call her to testify at Mandoyan's civil service hearing, the report said.
The report also said that Mandoyan's accuser provided investigators with three videos she recorded of the December 2014 alleged break-in incident and six videos of a January 2015 incident. But two clips, one recorded during each incident, were missing.
Mandoyan was fired in part for lying to internal affairs investigators by claiming he never tried to break into the woman's home. The report said the missing December 2014 video, up to 18 minutes, "may have added important context" to their interaction or corroborated Mandoyan's statement that he was trying to get his belongings from inside. It also cites emails in which department executives at first declined to form a conclusion on whether Mandoyan was dishonest.
Mandoyan told The Times recently that the missing clip in the December 2014 incident would have shown the pair laughing as they filmed each other. Shortly after the recording, he said, he was allowed inside. He said he and the woman then watched the footage and laughed. Later that night, they exchanged "love you" texts.
The woman, who resigned from the department before testifying in Mandoyan's civil service hearing, could not be reached for comment.
Mandoyan said he asked Villanueva for a fresh look at his case during the sheriff's campaign.
"All I ever asked from him was: Give me a fair shot. I knew I got screwed. I knew 110% I got screwed," he said. "I just wanted somebody to look at it with fresh eyes."
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We just recently celebrated the Moon Cake Festival in China. Our language school holds a party during this time of year to tell the history and share a meal with its students. (This is the same school that gave Allison opportunities to teach English to offset costs for our classes.) This party was a great way to meet other students and taste a variety of Chinese moon cakes.
This holiday is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, which may sound a bit strange. In the West September 23rd is the first day of Fall, but here in China we've had fall for almost two months now. There are certain things you just assume are universally true until you travel.
Recently we experienced the loss of a few things we have come to rely on. We've mentioned already the loss of our office in August and the delay of our interns arriving. This month Celeste, our Chinese assistant, decided to find another job because she didn't want to live at the farm. Then our security guards at the farm decided to leave because the government gave them a house. All of these unexpected changes can become a source of discouragement for us. However, many good things have come from them.
With the loss of the office, we now have much lower expenses and a more concentrated focus on moving activities to the farm. Allison was able to keep most of her students when they returned from summer holidays and even pick up a couple more even though she's teaching at home. And the loss of our Chinese assistant was more difficult, even though it was not on bad terms. We have come to rely on her for many things we cannot do with our limited language skills. Nevertheless by her departure, a door was opened for us to hire a new intern to get her here quicker.
We are sending an intern to a training in Atlanta, Georgia by Lifeline Children Services. We met up here in China with one of their workers who is in the division of (un)adopted. We found we have a very similar goal in reaching orphans that go through the system without ever being adopted. They wanted to bless us with this training, a $100 weekend training.
This training will be beneficial to our intern and us as it will give us information on understanding development, behavioral effects of trauma, neurochemistry changes, sensory processing disorder, behavioral change, healthy attachment, and other relevant issues in working with orphans. She will also get to stay with Whitney, the author of most of the curriculum, in order to get even more personal training during her stay. Would you like to join with Lifeline Children Services and also give to this intern's training?
If we could get 6 people to give $50, we could cover her flight to the training.
This need has been met. Thanks to those who gave.
We are very excited for these upcoming changes. Even in the end, Celeste still helps us out some as she has become part of our family and loves what we are trying to accomplish for girls who have no family. And, our security guards have decided not to leave, which we are also happy about. Each of these interruptions to what we expected caused us to look more to God and opened us up to greater provisions from Him.
Thank you for considering to help give to this intern's training (which greatly helps all of us).
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The Turkish Army has built new military bases along their border with Syria's Aleppo Governorate amid their recent threats to launch fresh operations against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
"The Turkish Army is engaged in setting up new military bases near Syria's border as it prepares to launch a new offensive," the Kurdish-language Hawar News Agency reported, citing sources as saying on Friday.
It noted that the Turkish Army has turned the houses of civilians in the villages of Kouk Tappa and Upper Ashmeh into military bases; this puts their armed forces within striking distance of western Kobani in northern Aleppo.
"The Turkish Army is also constructing trenches in the surrounding areas of the villages," the Hawar News said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly vowed to launch a military operation expel the SDF and People's Protection Units (YPG) east of the Euphrates River.
However, despite these threats, the Turkish military is still confined to the northwestern part of the country due to the U.S.' ongoing presence in the Aleppo, Al-Raqqa, Al-Hasakah, and Deir Ezzor governorates.
Erdogan has called on the U.S. to stop aiding the SDF, but the latter claims they are working with these groups to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh).
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Turks need to be targeted globally
Erdogan is going to take Idlib AND the N/E ( 35% ) of Syria with the full consent of Israel, Russia and the US.