This article will be updated periodically as information comes in. Check back for more details.  On April 23rd, 2017, members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (OSCE SMM) were traveling along an unpaved secondary road near Pryshyb, in Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR)-held territory when their armored vehicle […]

 The war in Syria is six years old now, and as the April 4th gas attack demonstrated, the use of prohibited weapons has not slowed or halted since the conflict began. To better understand the international legal implications of the war and what the world can and should be doing about it, we must first […]

Author’s Note: The Fulda Gap was granted the privilege to interview a Serbian participant in the events described below. Some of what is described below is informed by the testimony of our source, whose identity we have kept confidential for their safety. On April 3rd, 2017, thousands of people amassed in the streets of the […]

Recently the Russian Ministry of Defense released a statement regarding the 4/4 Khan Sheikhoun sarin attacks. Below is a refutation of almost every point they made. As always, but especially with the Russian MoD, verify every statement they make. More often than not, they’re fabricating their own reality. russian ministry of defense: Russian Defence Ministry comments […]

Warning: This post contains some disturbing images. Consider all video links from the aftermath of the bombing to be similarly disturbing and incredibly graphic.  On Saturday, April 15th, 2017, a large bomb blast ripped through a line of parked buses in Rashidin, west of Aleppo, Syria. The buses contained thousands of civilians being forcibly evacuated […]

Supporters of President Erdogan and the AKP are celebrating the announcement of the Yes campaign win in the vote on whether Turkey should adopt the proposed referendum which will strengthen Erdogan’s executive reach. The win, a 51% majority in favor of the Yes option, based on a 98% total vote count, was called by state […]

Turkey’s presence in American foreign policy and public discourse has slid into the obscure in recent years. A NATO ally since 1952, Turkey has been praised by much of the Western world as a secular, democratic nation, and a success story of the Middle East. The public’s focus in the Middle East has been fixed tightly […]

Warning: Some of the videos linked in this article are disturbing and show the aftermath of chemical weapons attacks On April 13th, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad gave a propaganda-filled interview to a reporter from AFP. The interview was a regurgitation of previous untruths, but emphasized the recent Khan Sheikhoun gas attack in particular. Below are […]

Last week, in response to a chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun, Syria, American president Donald Trump ordered a cruise missile strike against the airbase responsible for the attack. The president later went on to say that, should barrel bombs continue to be used in Syria, there would be further action. What exactly the president […]