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A Turkish “invasion” of Syria? Maybe not – let’s wait and see…

So the Turks have crossed into Syria.  This everybody agrees upon.  What remains completely obscure are the real goals of this operation. I won’t give the answer here simply because I don’t have it.  But let me share a few pointers nonetheless. Russian sources report that such an operation would have been unthinkable without a tacit agreement from Russia and Iran. Russia’s reaction has been a tepid “concern” while off

Russian MoD confirms airstrikes from Hamedan airbase in Iran

Tu-22M3 long-range bombers and Su-34 tactical bombers took off from the “Hamedan” airbase and carried out a concentrated airstrike on objects of the ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist groupings in the provinces of Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor and Idlib On August 16, 2016, Tu-22M3 long-range bombers and Su-34 tactical bombers took off from the “Hamedan” airbase (the Islamic Republic of Iran) and carried out a concentrated airstrike on objects of the

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