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Pax Russica: as Trump abandons Syria’s Kurds, Russia is ready to expand its empire

19 October 2019

9:00 AM

19 October 2019

9:00 AM

While American troops were hurriedly leaving north-eastern Syria, a young female Kurdish politician called Hervin Khalaf was pulled from her car and executed by the side of the road. Actually, the Kurdish media said she was raped and then stoned to death. They blamed one of the Arab militias being used by Turkey in its invasion.

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