Hours after its militaryjets and artillery began hitting territory held by kurdish led forces. Just days ago President Trump ordered american troops withdrawn from the border area, a decision thats been widely condemned, at home and abroad. The area under attack is controlled by the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces, who played a leading role in defeating the Extremist Group that calls itself Islamic State. They are long time american allies, but regarded by the turks as terrorists. The turkish government says it wants to clear Kurdish Forces from a 30 kilometre safe zone along the border, to resettle up to 2 million Syrian Refugees whove been living in turkey. One Monitoring Group says 10 civilians have already been killed. The bbcs orla guerin is on the border. In syria, a new round of warfare. The town of ras al ain under heavy bombardment, one of several just inside the border in the kurdish controlled north east. Its the start of a turkish offensive that is alarming europe, has
A head the Prime Minister is about to address parliament after his Coalition Government collapsed. Also the court of killing her Stillborn Baby a young salvadoran woman says justice has finally been done. With the sport. Targeted racist abuse after missing a penalty from 1000. 00 and australias cricket team has delivered a blow its top batsman steve smith is ruled out of the 3rd ashes test with concussion. Opposition activists in syria say rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of conscious kuhn in Southern Province and this follows days of fighting which saw them firing rockets into government tell a tree the Syrian Government has told its forces which are backed by russia but the battle isnt over yet the rebels also retreat. From the town of morduch which is in hama and its the site of a Turkish Military observation post cone in southern italy province is a main Population Center it used to be a place where 100000 syrians took shelter before the military escalati
Of the sixday war the breaking of the middle east by doctor guy laron. To my right, its a great pleasure to welcome him and welcome all of you to this event. Im christian and i direct the history and Public Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson center. Its a program that tries to provide to bring Historical Context to current Public Policy issues. The discussion of Public Policy issues in washington. Many of you are familiar with the subprojects of the history and Public Policy program, the program weve run here for 25 years almost more than 25 years. A project thats devoted to uncovering, collecting, disseminating, making accessible and discussing new evidence fror communist world archives but the mission has sort of crept to now include really all hard to access archives around the world. We are delighted to launch with this event today a series of activities, discussing on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sixday war. We will have today the launch of perhaps the most import
Classification scheme to allow for an understanding of ottomans. As turkish, as armenians, as supported jews, and as syrian arabs. One of the sticky notes was that each of these categories was understood as racial category in u. S. Immigration law, so that sort of created a new hierarchy whereby syrians were understood to be fundamentally different from the rest of the ottoman subjects coming to the United States, and this meant that there were certain there was a certain hierarchy, and that guided access to United States citizenship or not. How did the start of world war i impact these groups . The United States did not into the war until april of 1917, and when the United States entered the war they declared , war on germany, but not on germany plus principal ally, the Ottoman Empire, so technically, the ottoman entire and United States were never in a state of war. They were in a state of neutrality, but that still meant that ottoman nationals were sort of marked as a potentially pr
Remembrances were held in the three sites where many died. Joseph ross marxbank jr. Its a heartbreaking tradition repeated every september 11th in lower manhattan. Amy elizabeth toyen. They read the names of the lost with a constant theme, never forget. And myself, glenn davis early. I know youre watching. Youd be very proud that your beautiful wife, joan, has raised two wonderful boys. At the white house, the morning began with a somber remembrance and moment of silence at 8 46 a. M. When the first plane hit the first tower. Later, president obama spoke at a ceremony at the pentagon, where 125 people were killed in the building 12 years ago today. Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away. The lives that might have been. Lives lost, but never forgotten like the passengers and crew members who died in shanksville, pennsylvania. Their names announced at the memorial with 200 in attendance. For most new yorkers, 9 11 is forever seared in their souls. With a cost of almost 3,000