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What's Going on in Syria
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
It's been a horrible week in northeastern Syria. The U.S. abandoned its Kurdish allies after the president had a conversation by phone with Turkish President Erdogan and pulled the plug on the stabilizing U.S. presence in the region. The Turkish government began a major incursion over the border, which has produced significant casualties and major questions about ISIS detainees in Kurdish custody. To talk through it all, we pulled together quite a group. In the first half of the podcast, Benjamin Wittes spoke with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Scott R. Anderson and Dan Byman, both of Brookings and Lawfare. In the second half, Ben sat down with Oula A. Alrifai, a fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Leah West, a Lecturer of International Affairs at Carleton University in Canada. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Oct 19, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode #11: Jennifer Daskal on the Geography of the Battlefield: Georgetown Law fellow Jennifer Dasksal discusses her new article, "The Geography of the Battlefield: A Framework for Detention and Targeting Outside the 'Hot' Conflict Zone." by The Lawfare Podcast