Top Lawmakers Threaten Sanctions Over Turkey’s Double Game in Syria
Turkey, amid an alphabet soup of regional players in and around Syria, is the biggest and also the most stubborn.

Two senators, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, are threatening to impose a raft of sanctions on our treaty ally Turkey unless it comes to a “sustained ceasefire” with the American-backed Kurdish fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces now parked in northeastern Syria. Those terms would also include a demilitarized zone.
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