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Turkey Fails to Convince Russia to Lift Flight Ban Turkey's top-level delegation fails to get flights, banned after Erdogan went to Ukraine and fanned the flames, resumed Amberin Zaman 20 May 21 744 0
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Our Benevolent Empire US Oil Company Signs a Deal for Syrian Oil in the US-Occupied Part of the Country Syrian oil fields are in the previously ISIS-held Arab-populated east of the country now under control of US-augmented Kurdish forces Amberin Zaman 2 Aug 20 596 0
Syrian Kurds Increasingly Isolated as Arab Tribes Cut Deals With Government Unlike the Kurds, the Arabs of US-Kurdish run eastern Syria are generally ready to return to government fold Amberin Zaman 2 Apr 19 340 1